Nothing Will Be Impossible For You - come to be a Super Christian

Have you ever view of having super hero abilities. Maybe you've all the time wanted to fly like Superman, swim in the water like Aqua Man, or maybe have the best of these abilities and come to be like God. We have never seen Superman generate a world and then populate it with creatures that science has a difficult time understanding, let alone a simple explanation about their creation or existence, but agreeing to the Bible, God did this.

What if I told you that as a Christian, nothing will be impossible for you as long as you have faith. All you need is faith that Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God all form one being. You naturally need to believe that Jesus is God, God is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is Jesus and God combined to make one entity. This might get a miniature confusing, especially when you start to look at your dog, your cat and the simple housefly. Could these at last come to be a Trinity one day? I know what you're thinking but nothing will be impossible for you once you believe. I want you to read a simple phrase from the Bible, Matthew 17:20 He replied, "Because you have so miniature faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Now the Bible is not talking about, the size of the mountain. Let's face it, if I was to go to the beach, pack some moist sand into a 12 ounce cup, turn it upside down and place this small mountain of sand on the beach, I would have a small mountain. In turn I would be able to say move from here to there, settled my hand underneath my newly formed Sand Mountain and move it to where ever I chose to. This makes sense, doesn't it. Even though I had to help with the process. Now on the other hand, if I truly believed in God and ask Mount Everest to move to an additional one location, this could cause me to ask my religious beliefs, if the mountain didn't move. Am I a true believer? What am I doing wrong? If everything is inherent with God, how come I couldn't pray for the mountain to move? This is where we isolate the men from the boys, the mind of possibilities or the ended controled mind of trained believers and followers. The statement, Nothing will be impossible for you, is hard to accept since there are things that are impossible for us to do. If we can do the impossible as long as we believe, why do we still have pain and suffering throughout the world. There are fullness of Christians throughout history that have found positive things impossible to accomplish, yet truly believed in God. If you truly believe in the Bible, you should be able to do the impossible. If you truly believe in God and find that some things are impossible, I would suggest you to start finding for other things in the Bible that don't make sense. Don't be fooled by the false prophets,

What Happened to Christian Anointing - How Did We Lose it in History?

By the Middle Ages, anointing in the Christian church was pretty much the prerogative of a male catholic priesthood. Rules had been set down on who could and could not anoint. Unlike the early Christian era where laypeople-both men and women could use important oils to anoint for healing-that role was now in the hands of the ordained priests who were by then only men. Anointing for healing had come to be a sacrament of the church and the oil used was "symbolic" at best.

After the Reformation in the 1500's the laying-on of hands and anointing along with its required donations fell into disfavor among most of the new Christian denominations and the use of blessed oils and many other Christian rituals were discarded.

The Roman Catholic Church continued its institution of blessed oil for this final anointing even though the true meaning of anointing for healing of physical and spiritual health appeared to be lost. The sacrament of anointing became "extreme unction" performed by the priest at one's final breath.

The Anglican Church allowed for anointing in the visitation of the sick. Anointing was limited to the forehead and breast in difference to the sevenfold anointing (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet and heart) practiced to that date.

For most of the reformers, anointing was interpreted as the "inward anointing of the Spirit." They believed that the external rite, although proper in the first century, was no longer needed. There were occasional justifications for anointing of the sick, but they were roughly apologetic in tone as they protested Roman abuse of unction.

It was admittedly not until the last 40 years, a lapse of over 500 years, that a renewed interest in the healing power of anointing with oil began to reshape the Catholic Church's comprehension of the anointing of the sick. Even though anointing for healing was restored, it still used "symbolic" anointing with only limited fragrance of an important oil.

In modern years Protestantism has seen a whole of revivals of anointing of the sick.

The 1979 American Prayer Book (Episcopalian) provides a form for the priest to bless the oil for anointing the sick and the rubrics state that when necessary, a deacon or layperson may accomplish the anointing.

The Canadian Book of Alternative Services, (1985) states that anointing may be performed by laypersons authorized by the bishop. All use oil blessed by the bishop.

In the Lutheran tradition, provision is made for anointing in the Occasional Services (1982). After the laying on of hands in silence, the priest may "dip a thumb in oil, make a sign of the cross on the forehead," and pray that, as the apostles anointed and healed many who were sick, so the Spirit may be given to the one anointed with oils that he or she "may in repentance and hope be made whole."
The Book of Worship (1986) of the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Holy Baptism and Services for the reparation of Baptism both include forms of anointing.

The hard-lined confidence that anointing was superstitious doesn't seem to carry the same weight that it once did. Small groups reading the Scriptures have felt called to restore the use of oil for healing. Clearly-anointing with oil is starting to come to be a sign of hope for many who suffer physically, emotionally and spiritually.