THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST.....EVEN MORE!!! VICTORY THAN WE KNEW!!!!!!!!!

*******Please read this carefully, maybe read it several times (You don't want to miss ANY
of the victories in this, they are for YOU!!!*****

Jesus Christ's betrayal and arrest in Gethsemane:

"When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook
Kidron, where there was a garden (Garden of Gethsemane) which he and His disciples
entered...(John 18:1...) (Also please see John 17:1-26)

So, in the Garden of Gethsemane---Jesus was betrayed and arrested----He entered Gethsemane
by crossing the Kidron Valley---

The Kidron is a valley on the eastern slope of Jerusalem through which a seasonal brook runs.
In the winter rains, the Brook Kidron is swollen - an overwhelming outpouring of water.
Asa, Hezekiah, and Josiah, the great reforming kings of Judah, burned the idols and objects
of worship  of the pagan cults - in the Kidron Valley.  In  the time of Josiah, the Kidron Valley
was the common cemetery of Jerusalem.  The Brook Kidron finally ends in the Dead Sea.
Even the name "Kidron" means "Gloomy".

JESUS IS THE TRUTH. (John 14:6)
HIS obedience to His Father's will --- paid for every aspect of our healing!!!  "He was a man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief....The punishment necessary for US to have PEACE  was put
upon HIM...and by HIS stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:3-5)

"HE is HIMSELF our PEACE". (Ephesians 2:14)

JESUS spoke the words..."Father...now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world,
that these people (whom You have given to me)... may have MY joy fulfilled in themselves".
(John 17:1-19).

So JESUS ("CROSSED") the (Gloomy) Kidron Vallley several times - CROSSING gloom (depression),  idol worship, death,  grief and the grave.  And on His cross He declared: ..."IT IS FINISHED"!!! (John 19:30) 

"Now thanks be to God - Who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us (HE) manifests the fragrance of His knowledge in every place." (II Corinthians 2:14)

"GLORY TO YOU O GOD IN THE HIGHEST"!!!

WE BOW! WE BOW! WE BOW OUR KNEE AND OUR TONGUES CONFESS YOU ARE LORD OF ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   

HEALING??? WHEN?????????

HOLY GOD is not limited by time when He is healing us according to His Word!!!
(but he understands that WE are in time).

A few years BEFORE I retired, my supervisor (Roy Cornweller) on a weekday notified (us
(whom He supervised) that his wife (Brandy) was in the hospital.

At that time, I started praying extra for both Roy and Brandy.

Soon after that, our HOLY LORD GOD drew to my attention to a portion of His Word:
"By His (JESUS') stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5).

As I prayed about this verse, ANOTHER verse came to my remembrance.....
It was Isaiah 55:11 "So shall MY WORD be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not
return to Me void (empty or fruitless); But it shall accomplish that for which I sent it and
shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it)."

And this verse Isaiah 55:11 (above) strengthened my faith that Brandy would be healed after
she read the verse ("By His stripes we are healed").

When I first received the healing verse I also understood that I should write the verse down and
give it to Roy and Brandy...and after she read it she would be healed.
As stated above, I did give the verse to Roy, he gave it to Brandy, and she read it.

After giving the verse to them I waited several days, then I asked Roy "how is Brandy?"
Roy said, "About the same". Of course, I was disappointed!

I waited until 2 weeks had passed, then I again ask Roy "how is Brandy?", Again Roy answered
"about the same".

Again I was disappointed!. Soon after that, I sensed that I had to spend alone with our LORD---
in order to get some more understanding from HIM. As soon as I could, I did (by HIS GRACE)
spend some time with HIM.

During that time, I struggled to be in reverent AWE of GOD, and at the same time be truthful
in expressing my frustration.

I remember saying, "O LORD, please guard my heart, and please give me understanding"-------

"I know that Isaiah 55:11 says that Your word will not go out and come back void.....but I don't
see ANYTHING happening in Brandy's sickness; but I know that Your word says that Your word
does not go out and come back void...but accomplishes that for which It was sent.........so I went
back and forth quoting those 2 verses.....

Finally---after GOD got me calmed down, and quiet, then gave me understanding:
"While Brandy is in the hospital, there are many family members, friends, co-workers, and
others that are coming to visit Brandy, and hospital staff are in and out of her room.......
I (GOD) am doing MUCH work in the lives of all those people.....; When I (GOD) have completed the work in all their lives THEN I WILL HEAL BRANDY!!!"

Our HOLY GOD graciously gave me more understanding:

"YOU, Barry have been quoting ME Isaiah 55:11?!!!
"My son, I know that up until this time Isaiah 55 is the ONLY chapter that you have already
memorized---
So look just 2 verses above there....in Isaiah 55:9...
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and
MY thoughts than your thoughts."

O WOW!!! when I think different from GOD'S WORD.....He can just "lay me out"!!!

But HE is so gracious to us!!! HE is faithful to His word and to His righteous character". (2 Timothy 2:13)

AFTER HE FINISHED HIS WORK IN ALL THOSE LIVES.........HE DID IN TRUTH HEAL BRANDY!!!!!!!!!

HOW AWESOME HE IS!!!!!!!!! THE ONLY TRUE GOD!!!!!!!!!(JOHN 17:3)

LET US IN WORDS AND ACTION WORSHIP HIM!!!!!!!!!
"SURELY LOVE AND MERCY,YOUR PEACE AND KINDNESS WILL FOLLOW ME WILL FOLLOW ME." (See Psalm 23:6)