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Someone Touched Me

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Wherever fear begins, faith ends. It takes courage to break that fear threshold  ~ Kenneth Copeland Who was it who touched me? When they all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing against you! So why the heck would you say someone touched you? The Master answered, "Someone touched me for I know that power has gone out from me." But when the woman who touched him (but before now has been suffering from hemorrhage for 12 years) saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him, in the presence of all the people, she gave her testimony of how she was healed. The most intriguing fact of this event was that other people were pressing against him, before and after this woman gave her testimony but still, nothing happened to them. So what is the difference between these two set of people (the woman who had a testimony and those who had none)? This difference, in like manner is similar ...

Faith, Imagination and You: A Captain-Sailor Scenario

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I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe. ~ Smith Wigglesworth. A picture paints a thousand words and that was exactly how I felt after looking at one particular picture, actually, I think it was just a few hundreds. Nevertheless, I was considering a picture some days ago, a picture of 2 guys on a ship, one obviously a Captain and the other, a Sailor. Both of them were looking beyond the horizon, suddenly the Captain cried out; LAND HO! I CAN SEE OUR DESTINATION STRAIGHT AHEAD! But the sailor looked and said; I don't see anything! Now, you might ask, how come this captain saw the destination but the sailor couldn't, at least both of them have eyes. And this is where the whole gist got interesting. The captain, of course had an extra gadget with him - the telescope but the experienced sailor didn't. The only difference between the Captain and the Sailor in this picture is just the telescope. The ...