WISDOM:  WHEN GOD TURNS UP THE HEAT  7/17/08

INTERESTING FACT ABOUT HEAT: This fact was documented on Modern Marvels, they had a test in 1963 in NASA.  Researchers found that when the outside temperature rises up to 95 degrees, a person can make up to 60 mistakes an hour.   Bringing the temperature down 5 degrees, reduces the number of mistakes to 9 per hour.   So they using these cooling vests for race car drivers, fire fighters, astronauts, surgeons, military and now in football. 

PARABLE:  I have found that in the worst tests of my life, (when the heat is turn up in my spiritual, physical or emotional life) that I make a lot of stupid mistakes.   Weakness has taught me to constantly pray over things and lean on God to help me. 

I understand that when God turns up the heat, it is for the purpose of flushing all those impurities to the surface.  And that is when we start making more mistakes than usual.  Walk in the fear of the Lord, don’t trust in your own strength and pray that you do not fall!

1 Cor 9:24-27 NKJV

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.  And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.  Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.