Mike Oliver's Messages

It dawned on me early this morning that God has been a gift giver to me and through me.  All Christians must know the greatest gift of His Son Jesus Christ but we tend to leave it at that. From time to time Christians see healing done in a miraculous manner and that healing prayer is "a process of doing the right things by prayer and supplication" and its up to God whether it happens or not. Looking back however I see generous gifts freely coming to me for others - a present to open, a new heart sweeping past me into a person and spiritual gifts bestowed on others. God has been a generous benevolent Father through Jesus Christ His Son who said He would live in us with the Father. Inside of us, those who have welcomed the Godhead into our lives, is the similitude of that same Godhead, thinking thoughts of life giving deeds as the Father thinks, loving these generous thoughts as our Jesus did and doing these mighty deeds as Holy Spirit did. God being inside of us makes us li

Put yourself in this position… You have just heard that there’s a new sport introduced to the Olympic Games to be held in three months from now and you have been selected to represent your nation if you wish and you have nothing else to do so you say okay let’s do this - it’ll be a hoot. You find yourself loading gear and trucking it to a swimming pool where some of your friends are also being gathered to train for the event so you unload and find equipment and among it all is your pair of crystal clear banana shaped floats on which you recognize as ski boots. At the swimming pool complex coaches have been arriving and some of the other chosen contestants are already in the pool trying out their equipment for their chosen new event so you unpack your gear and put on the curved floating skis and take to the pool for the first time. To your amazement you find these float devices can support your weight perfectly for a brief moment before they slowly sink below the surfa

It has been the tradition for a personal healing that church members spoke with the individual and asked what they want prayer for, then prayed Christ would heal the complaint. This is of course in line with the statement of Jesus that whatever we ask in His name the Father will so give us and a prayer is therefore signed "In Jesus name." This prayer is in hope of invoking the power of  Christ to achieve Godly miracles as in New Testament times and if it didn't work it was not God's will. Compared with Christ's testimony of 100% healing we find a comparatively poor rate of healing in most churches today and the thought is there something astray. To King Saul when he did not complete Gods instruction the prophet Samuel says (1Sam 15:23) for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the Word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. We know the way of witchcraft is not right but