.by Stephanie Cawthron on Friday, January 21, 2011 at 5:33am.
Written by... ME. It has come to my attention that there are some "out there" who are concerned by my recent decision to have our baby in the comfort of our home... my hope is that the following "note" will help alleviate some of that concern, and increase the readers' faith not in our decision, but in God.
Thanks to those who... questioned.... I've been sitting on the fence for too long...
ONLY GOD CAN CREATE AND BRING LIFE INTO THIS WORLD, AND SUSTAIN IT!
No man can touch this... we are His children... I believe that only HE can breathe life into our lungs, and only HE can take it away... No amount of activity (or lack thereof) can change that...
Only God wrote our stories for life... from beginning, to end.
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered. Matthew 10:29-31
For you were made in my image. Genesis 1:27
In me you live and move and have your being.Acts 17:28
For you are my offspring. Acts 17:28
I knew you even before you were conceived. Jeremiah 1:4-5
I chose you when I planned creation. Ephesians 1:11-12
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book. Psalm 139:15-16
1 Samuel 2:6
God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up. God brings poverty and God brings wealth; he lowers, he also lifts up. He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives— a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God's; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation. He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! God's enemies will be blasted out of the sky, crashed in a heap and burned. God will set things right all over the earth, he'll give strength to his king, he'll set his anointed on top of the world!
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THE GREAT PHYSICIAN is who I trust and have Faith in.... HE is the ONLY one that has never let me down.
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GOD AS HEALER:
God Is The Author And Source Of Life
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father
of lights, with Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1:17
God is the author and source of life, health, and all that is good.
We have an enemy that desires to destroy us, whom we are to resist
steadfast in the faith. (James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8,9)
Exod 23:25-26
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water.
And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage
or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Prov 4:20-22
My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of
your heart; For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
GOD AS CREATOR:
MAN BECOMES A LIVING SOUL.
Genesis 2:7
God's last acts of Creation was that God formed man and woman. First God created man's body. Everything was in place but it was lifeless. Next God, started man's heart, and lungs to function and man came alive. God was the source of life, although the material man was made of was lifeless matter of the earth it only became a "living being" when God put life into it. God breathed in man's nostrils the breath of life. The word breath is used in various ways in Scripture, Generally it means "spirit" which this seems to be what is meant here. God gave man the "spirit of life."
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If we put our faith in man, by being more trusting in DOCTORS or whoever MORE than we trust GOD, doesn't that undermine the very HEART OF GOD and the FAITH He wants His followers to have?
I believe that most people today believe that GOD will heal us only through the DOCTORS hands... and medicine.. But what I firmly believe, is that GOD CAN, AND WILL HEAL, in any way HE wants to... and I don't need to look elsewhere for His comfort, healing, or Life... He is the lifegiver... there's nothing we as humans can do to change that.
My faith has undergone ridiculous refining over the last 3 years... it has been insanely difficult for me. I've had tons of ups, and downs... even to the point where I have questioned...DEEPLY... the very existence of God in my life. I have questioned whether or not He even cares enough to be involved or to answer my prayers... But the fact of the matter is, that HE is ALWAYS there... whether I want Him to be, or not... and HE is ALWAYS in control... because He's made a point to make that FACT distinctly clear to me over, and over, and over again. The only way I can be happy, and truly fulfilled, is when I fully trust Him to be in control, and guide my life... every breath, every step, every decision... and the only way I can do that is to take my eyes and my faith away from HUMAN STRENGTH, of EVERY source (yes, doctors included), and focus solely on following Him and His voice that I have so clearly been able to hear...even when I deny it. It's a very hard thing, for me... to want to listen to Him and His leading in my life... terrifying most of the time actually. Because no matter what, I KNOW that whatever He asks of me, will NOT be easy... My experience is that when I obey Him, it ALWAYS causes friction somewhere in my life...with someone. I've listened to those "someones, " too often in my life... to the point of near suicide because I was so distraught by the reactions of others.
QUESTION ME... THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE... But don't question God, or His voice and calling in my life. I hear Him clearly. I trust Him fully. I want to obey Him BLINDLY.
ONLY HE knows me intimately... there are not many on this earth that can say that... I'm an open book... TRANSPARENT... but there are not many out there who have the time or interest to go there with me... therefore, HE alone is my best friend... He alone knows the innermost, delicate thoughts, worries, fears, hopes, and dreams. HE ALONE Cares completely. And He Alone, UNDERSTANDS ME.
~Stephanie Cawthron
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