RE: [TruthTalk] Christians' authority over nature

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Matthew 8 25   And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, "(1) Save us, Lord; we are perishing!" 26   He said to them, "Why are you afraid, (2) you men of little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. 27   The men were amazed, and said, "What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"   John 14 12   Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.   Care to rethink that, John? I’ve had too many “weather prayers” answered to walk in unbelief on that issue. And all because I only had the Bible to teach me.  Fortunately, I didn’t think to ask anyone if I should believe it. J   That reminds me of one night when I awoke to a ferocious storm and a sound like a train blowing past the house.  I got up and ran to grab my sons and get them into the basement.  By the time we got down there the worst of it was past.  The next morning we awoke to see the devastation outside.  HUGE trees were blown down in the yards right behind us—one on top of the house right beyond ours across the street.  The storm had left branches twisted like corkscrews in the branches of the trees above our roof.  (One is still twisted like that today.)  My older son had a broken window in his bedroom window that I had just temporarily taped a piece of plastic over, and I thought since the storm blew in from the front where his room was facing I’d find a big wet mess in there.  But I got there and found the flimsy piece of plastic still there.  When I marveled about that my son (about age 14 at the time) said, “Mom when you came to get me I was praying for God to protect us and I saw angels around our house. They were big and muscular and they each faced out with a big sword in their hands.”  I mentally pictured one at each corner of the house, and asked him “How many were there?”  He looked at me with eyes as big as saucers and said, “They were standing shoulder to shoulder.”  Fortunately, no one had told him not to believe in weather prayers either.   Izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Christians' authority over nature   In a message dated 8/16/2004 12:56:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John, What? Do I sound like a far-out Pentecostal miracle behind every tree sort of person? It seems only reasonable to pray about the weather and expect results (yes, Praise God, we did get some results in Florida).  So what’s with your dissertation below? Run of the mill weather prayers are far from raising the dead. Are they too “miraculous” for you?  Izzy nothing wrong with weather prayers, good Sister.   But, no one did it in the biblical record.   And I have noticed no pattern activity on the part of God in relationship to prayers  of climatic deliverance.  John