No Clue!!! When, Where or Who E-Book

Michael Colbaugh

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere at anytime. The next miracle can happen to you. God loves to surprise us, he could surprise you. No Clue!!! When, Where or Who is about living with the hope of Gods’ limitless power.

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Michael Colbaugh

No Clue!!! When, Where or Who

Living with the hope of Gods’ limitless power.

To the one who inspires everything I do, Lillian, my wife. Through her I often hear Gods still small voice. I am so in love with you.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Preface: Are you sure you want to read this book?

I hate to tell the truth because it is not what most would want me to say. To be totally candid it will not get me an interview on any of the big or little religious broadcasting shows. Televangelists will not be knocking at my door and begging me to go to their next mega seminar. Quiet honestly, if they even catch wind of what I am saying in this writing they will tell you what is askew with me and my faith. It will not help them market their next miracle cloth or three-step revelation they just received from God for you so you will have your healing, prosperity and mega power. By the way, if that is what you are looking for in reading this, STOP!!! You will not find it here. Go make yourself a pot of coffee and turn on the other guys. They will be very glad to take your money. You could just turn on Wheel of Fortune and that will do you just as much good.

What I am going to tell you is our God does surprise us at times for which we can never calculate or plan. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense the when, where and who He touches or blesses. For over forty years I have been blessed to witness some of these surprises from God on myself and others. That is what you will find in this writing. It may inspire or touch you. It may possibly give you some hope. There is no guarantee and I am sorry for that but that’s the truth.

At the time I am writing this there are multiple wars going on in the world. One in which I have a son fighting in Afghanistan and another son who will soon be going to Iraq. There are earthquakes, floods, severe winters, famines, poverty and numerous other things that are catastrophically affecting people. This writing will not change that. Sorry!!!

There are many things about God that I can’t wrap my mind around. He is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent to name a few. I have learned to accept and trust Him in what I will never ascertain until I am face to face with Him. Often it is frustrating, but that is just the way it is. A sovereign God does as a sovereign God wishes. If you or anyone else thinks you have Him all figured out you are at the least, full of crap. Job in his suffering asked God the why question. God responded with the following comments.

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements?  Surely you know!  Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion? Can you bring out Constellations in its season? Or can you bind the Great Bear with its Cubs? Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Job 38:4-7,31-33

It is for sure today I know little and tomorrow I will know even less in this life. I discover that when I find out something about God that I haven’t realized before, it opens up many more questions I haven’t thought of previously. Yet in the next life it will all make unbelievable sense. For now I have no clue when, where, or who our God will surprise next with a special touch. Maybe it will be you or me.

If you are still with me the surprises that I have encountered are what you will read in this little book. No bull, just as I saw it or experienced it. No formulas for you to try to make it happen for you. No seminar or course to sign up for. No church to join or offering to send. So relax and take your protecting hand off your wallet. I’m just going to share with you what happened; and I was clueless it was going to happen.

Pastor, she’s alive again!

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it”

                                                                        G. K. Chesterton

I really didn’t have much of a routine at this time of my life. I was planting my first church and just getting my feet wet. Matter of fact, everyday was full of surprises but nothing like what was on the horizon. To be perfectly honest it was a beautiful spring day.   The sun was shining and I had planned to go fishing. I do mean fishing for fish not for men, which some probably thought I shouldn’t be doing. 

This was before cell phones were invented. It was the pager era so I felt if an emergency arose I could be contacted. Just before leaving home the phone rang. I almost decided to ignore it but something pushed me to answer. On the phone was a young lady from our new church and she was crying. She had received a call from her cousin. He and his wife found their baby girl in her crib blue and not breathing earlier that morning. When the ambulance came to transport the baby to the hospital they didn’t expect her to live. If she did live she would have severe brain damage. I was asked to go pray for her in the ICU, where she was on a breathing machine. I agreed and learned the baby was at Maury Medical Center in Columbia, Tennessee. It would take me about an hour.

I had met this couple only once and I really didn’t know much about them. They weren’t confessing believers and did not attend any church. This I learned from their cousin who did attend church with us. The family had moved here from Chicago and was of Italian descent. Both were very young, around twenty years old.

By now my mind tried to imagine how they must be feeling engulfed in fear.  At this time, I had three children of my own and I wouldn’t even allow myself to think of that being one of my own.  Oh, God help me comfort them. I began to pray. 

It only took me about ten minutes to change and I was in my car headed down the road. I previously had purchased a new cassette of a music group I loved at that time. It was by 2nd Chapter of Acts and this was their arrangements of their favorite hymns. They rocked it in their personal flavor. The harmony, as always with this group, was heavenly and with the rock guitar leads I soon found I was outside myself in another world. In this world I knew nothing was impossible and my faith began to swell in my spirit. Right then I saw myself laying my hands on this baby I was in route to see. I heard a voice say “in Christ’s name, life come back to this child and death be gone.” I also knew I would have to ask the medical person attending her if I could lay my hand on the baby and say a prayer over her.

Now I was on a mission with a plan in mind. I had been here in this state of mind and spirit before. Most of those times in the past resulted in a very positive outcome. I felt confident this time would manifest the same good results. I remember arriving a lot quicker than I thought it would take to get there. 

As I walked into the hospital, I had flashbacks as a child going to the hospital with my dad. He also was a pastor and he would take me from time to time with him as he prayed for people in the hospital. My dad wasn’t highly educated but he was highly confident in the love and power of God. With that confidence he saw the hand of God touch and change lives more often than not.  Now it was my turn and I felt the same way.

Inside the hospital door I had to ask where a baby in ICU would be located. It was my first time in this hospital so I was not familiar with its layout. The receptionist gave me directions and I quickly made my way down the corridors to the ICU. My heart was excited and beating very rapidly. I turned a corner and there stood the parents embracing each other in tears.

At that moment I realized my very simple, detailed mission did not include seeing the parents and knowing what to say to them. It was to find the baby and ask the medical person in charge if I could lay my hand on her and say a simple pray. The prayer played over in my mind. In Christ’s name life come back to this child and death be gone. Now I was faced with what to say to the parents.

This dilemma was taken care of when Tony, the father, immediately thanked me for coming and motioned me toward the baby. I could tell the severity of the child’s condition because of the liberty in gaining access to the baby. Normally you would call outside the unit and get permission to visit the patient. That wasn’t the case here. I walked into the ICU and saw the baby in what looked like an incubator. A nurse stood beside her.

To my surprise, right before I started to speak to the nurse, the parents stuck their heads into the doorway of the room and said to the nurse, “This is our pastor.” That wasn’t true but at that moment I was perfectly okay with what they said. They turned after the introduction and went back into the hallway outside the baby’s room. 

At that moment thoughts of the parents’ mental state and condition filled my mind. Along with fear they were getting a heavy dose of condemnation and guilt for not being part of a church. Satan was pouring it on at this time. He was taking the opportunity to kick them while they were down. The blame game was in gear and satan already had his claws in them and screaming the lies.  More than likely they did not know it was satan who comes to kill, steal and destroy. They also didn’t know Jesus came to give us abundant life and that only good and perfect gifts come from God above. I directed a thought toward the enemy. Satan you are a lying, yellow belly sap sucker. That was in that day, one of the things I called our enemy. Another name I called him was a suck egged mule. It was a way to diffuse my anger on him.