Steven Hill's Blog – January 2011 Archive (5)

A person can be raised in church their entire life and have no clue who God is.

You see, there is a difference between 'believing God' and 'knowing God'. There is? Wait...you mean to tell me I can believe in God and have no clue what His personality is like, or His characteristics? Yep. That's exactly what I'm telling you. You see, God seeks the ones who are broken hearted. He draws close to those who have no hope, who have no future but only a past. He comes to those whose…

Ok. I have two testimonies that has happened to me within the past two days. God has been showing Himself more to me in ways that I couldn't imagine. For the past week, I have been praying and praying and praying and studying the Word. The prayers really paid off. What you're about to read is true, and I am the personal witness of these events; God was performing these miracles, so of course He was there.

The First…

My whole life I have been raised in church. Mom didn't go to church, so she made my brother and sister and I ride the church bus every Sunday; I hated it. I hated driving for two hours just to go sit in a service for one whole hour. That one whole hour was the worst hour that I had to face once a week. I use to curse God and say, "If this is worship, then You are boring."

The church I had been attending was called "Gospel Light Baptist Church." They had a very nice church…

As we turn our wet strained faces to the heavens, we call on God in a way that we haven't experienced in a long time. In this prayer, we tell God our troubles, tell Him everything that's going wrong. We ask Him "Why don't You just fix this?" or "I'm trying God, please hear me!"

We ask for God in prayer, and when we get off our knees we quickly walk away as if there was never a conversation with God. We go on in life, thinking about our problems.

One day a…

This is a letter that I feel that God has to say to someone. Please note that what you are seeing on the screen are coming out of my fingers, but out of the loving kindness of the Lord's heart. May this letter of love bless you in ways of encouragement and provide you comfort.

Dear Child,

What's wrong? Why are you so hurt? Why do you run from Me? Don't you realize that I am the Only One who can take your pain away? Don't you know that the things of…