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MARK BRAZEE

DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries
Friday, January 28th, 2005
http://orm.cc

GOD'S DIVINE INSURANCE POLICY
Mark Brazee
Mark Brazee Ministries
www.brazee.org

No doubt all of us would agree that we are living in dangerous times. But nothing that is happening today has caught god by surprise. The bible says in II Timothy 3:1, This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. God has know about these times all along, and He has provided us with a diving insurance policy—His Word—so we can live in supernatural protection!

In the natural, insurance policies pay off when something has already happened. But God's policy covers us before things happen! Psalm 91:1 says, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. The "secret place" is a place of protection. To dwell there is to believe that god is big enough to take are of you, and you follow His inward urgings as he speaks to you. As you go about your day, something inside you may say, don't leave right now, or, Take another route. That is the built-in compass you have from God—the leading of the Holy Spirit—that makes His divine insurance policy work in your life.

We have a missionary friend who called us one day shortly after September 11, 2001. He said, 'What do you think about my returning to the mission field? I'm standing at the airline counter right now, but I have a check in my spirit about going.' We told him, 'then don't get on that plane! Follow your inward leading.' So he didn't go. You may ask, 'What happened?' Nothing happened because he obeyed the Spirit's inward leading and didn't get on the plane.

Romans 8:14 says, For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. We can expect to be led by God's Spirit, and when we listen and obey Him, we can walk in the protection of His divine insurance policy.

ON DOCTRINE NOTE:
It should occur to the reader that there is something very wrong within the statement quoted above. How is it, that if nothing happens, a person is considered to have been protected by God if they were not part of the incident in question? In other words, if the person did not take the plane and the plane reached its destination without incident, how is that considered to be the result of a "divine insurance policy" that gave the person protection? Protection from what, a safe trip?

Two opposite or unequal conditions cannot equate to the same conclusion. It is illogical and unreasonable to presume that a plane flight which the missionary did not take and to which no negative outcome occurred, can be equated the same as a plane flight which the missionary did not take but which a negative outcome did occur, and it cannot be presumed that both of those instances reveal the protection of God. Now, if a person did not take the plane and subsequently the plane did crash and all on board were killed or injured, then that would be a realistic application of the divine leading and protection of God.

It must be presumed that if the missionary had gone ahead and taken the plane and ignored his "inward leading" that something untoward would have happened, after all that was his concern, but the reality is that nothing happened, not only to the missionary who remained behind, but to the other individuals who continued on their trip by staying on the plane. It is a mystery how that type of outcome would be considered such a danger that it required the protection of God.

In relation to the Sept. 11 tragedy, which was the basis of the missionaries' concern, it must also be presumed that the Christians who may have been killed or injured during that event were not listening to their "inward leading" that day, so they paid a heavy price for not doing what Mark Brazee claims should be part of every minute detail of a person's life.

What Mark Brazee is trying to teach the reader is his claim that God speaks to believers on a continual basis, mainly through their intuitive feelings or emotions, so he is attempting to affirm his own claims that God speaks to him regarding the direction of his ministry, the nature of what he teaches and the claims that he makes in relation to how God communicates to believers, which is standard Word of Faith doctrine based on feelings, emotions and desires rather than sound doctrine.

The basic error in the example that Mark Brazee relates is his assumption and claim that the "inward leading" was actually the presence of God. But that idea was only assumed based on the subjective feelings and emotions of the missionary and the theology of he and Mark Brazee. Feelings and emotions are not the determinants of truth and do not validate the presence, revelation or words of God. The individual who places their spiritual life under the control of their feelings and emotions, will find themselves subject to a search for fulfillment that will never end, Ephesians 4:14.

The assuption that something comes from God, because it feels good, sounds good and appeals to what a person desires or how they view themselves, is classic error.

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