There has been a lot of talk (mostly controversial) in the
past few years of gemstones appearing out of nowhere during church services and
while people were praying. I, for one, have always been a skeptic, mostly
because I had never seen such a thing before. I was sitting at my desk
pondering on such things and prayed and said "Lord, if these things are
true I want You to show me". That's when this "stone" that's pictured above just
appeared out of thin air and landed on the linoleum floor next to where I was
sitting. I even heard a distinct "clink" sound as it hit the ground. Mind you, I was completely alone when this happened, so no one was there that could have dropped this or "play a trick" on me.
OK, so now that most
of you think I'm nuts, let me share a few things from God's word. If we read
Revelation 21:19-20, it tells us "The foundations of the city walls were
decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper,
the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the
sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the
tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst” (NIV).
Couldn't the same God that built heaven out of jewels and paved its streets
with gold cause such things to appear to us, especially if we believe that
heaven and all of its goodness is accessible to us IN THIS LIFE? In Isaiah
61:10, it says “I
delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he
has clothed me with garments of salvation and
arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his
head like
a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels” (NIV). Could it be
that The Lord is getting ready to take His bride (the church) home and is preparing
her by adorning her with jewels in these last days? I don’t have an answer. All
I know is what I have seen with my own eyes and hold in my hand. It was an
interesting encounter to say the least. It was definitely a “sign” that made me
scratch my head and “wonder”.
That brings us to
another point; the bible tells us that there were many "signs and
wonders" performed by Jesus, His disciples and subsequently their
followers and so on. Jesus even said that we would be able to do greater works
than He did. What were the signs and wonders mentioned? For the most part, the
bible is unclear as to what many of these signs and wonders were. We know that
Jesus turned water into wine, caused a coin to appear out of nowhere in a fish’s
mouth, multiplied a boys fish and bread to feed 5000 and walked on water. We
read in the book of Acts of signs and wonders performed by the hands of the
apostles. Heck, even Peter’s shadow had the ability to heal the sick and Paul’s
handkerchief could heal sick folks and drive out demons. Talk about signs to
make you wonder! The point I’m making is this: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD! Jesus
said “Anything is possible if a person believes” (Mark 9:23 NLT). You now have
a choice; you can choose to look at this picture and believe it (maybe God will
send a similar manifestation of His goodness to you) or you can choose to think
I have lost my mind and this is a bunch of crap in which case I absolutely guarantee
you will never see anything like this for yourself.
I pray that God will shower you with His best. Hopefully that will include
gemstones. If so, I’d like to hear about it.
Until next time, God bless........................Stan
