Know Your God

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." -- I Corinthians 1:18

Trying to use God's power, without having a relationship with Him is spiritual shoplifting and very dangerous indeed. See what happened to the sons of Sceva. "A team of itinant Jews who were traveling from town to town casting out demons planned to experiment by using the name of the Lord Jesus. The incantation they decided on was this: 'I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preached, to come out!' Sevon sons of Sceva, a Jewish preist, were doing this. But when they tried it on a man possessed by a demon, the demon replied, 'I know Jesus and I know Paul, but who are you?' And he leaped on two of them an dbeat them up, so that they fled out of his house naked and badly injured." Acts 19:13-16

Once the Lord had finally revealed to me that our son's problem was spiritual, I thought we'd have it licked. You know what I mean? Go down to the pastor of our home church, get him and a couple of elders to pray for the kid and...