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From News.Sky.com - Barbara Garcia, whose home was destroyed by the Oklahoma tornado, found her pet dog among the rubble during the following live TV interview. After their heartwarming reunion, she said with tears in her eyes, "Well, I thought God just answered one prayer, to let me be ok, but He answered both of them. This was my 2nd prayer."
As of this morning, the tornado outbreak which started on the 18th is still producing tornadoes. So far, 70 have been reported, 15 have been confirmed. Yesterday afternoon, I watched live aerial footage from KFOR News of the twister that hit Moore, Oklahoma. That monster turned out to be over 2 miles wide. The following video is aerial footage provided by their Channel 4 News chopper flying over the destruction path that the tornado left behind.
Words cannot express what I feel when I watch this video, but you all know me... I'm gonna have plenty to say regardless. My face is drenched in tears right now after watching this video. It expresses simply what I've been trying so hard to communicate to my fellow Christians for years and years and years. Everything I've ever tried to share with anyone, whether when it was teaching Sunday School back in the 90s, or with verse-by-verse studies at "Founding Word", it's all summed up in this short little video. Besides the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ Himself, the most precious gift we've ever been given is this awesome book that we casually call, "The Bible". The following video is recorded footage of the reaction of Chinese Christians after seeing a Bible for the very first time.
Satan has gone to great lengths in other countries to keep the Bible away from people. In America, Satan uses different tactics to keep us away from God's Word. We listen to his lies and then we believe them... lies about the Bible itself, lies about our ability to understand it, lies about it's necessity, it's relevance, etc... We herd ourselves like cattled zombies into churches week after week, we sing our songs, go thru the motions, while never making any commitments to know God's Word personally for ourselves. It's just not that important to us. It doesn't even make it on the daily radar of our personal lives. So to save time, we let someone else read the Bible for us, tell us what to think, what to read, what to believe, and when it's all said and done, we have the audacity to call that "worship" because we do it with such zest each Sunday morning. But watch this video and think about their reactions to owning a Bible and then contrast it with how you react to yours. Is it a priority? Is it important? When holding your own bible, does your heart burn within you like this when you consider just what it really is you have holding in your hands?
