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Persistent Prayer Turns Christ’s Silence, His “No,” and “Absolutely Not” to “YES!”

Anita Mathias — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:57:15 +0000

From Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (The transcript to the recorded podcast meditation is below, here). Persistent Prayer Turns Christ’s Silence, His “No,” and “Absolutely Not” to YES! Persistent Prayer Turns Christ’s Silence, His “No,” and “Absolutely Not” to YES! So, a Gentile Syro-Phoenician woman comes to Jesus, crying out, “Lord, have […]

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Grab Christ’s Hand When You Are Sinking

Anita Mathias — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:20:06 +0000

Hi friends, I’ve recorded a podcast meditation, which I hope you’ll enjoy. Feedback welcome 🙂 Sometimes, the little boat of your life is tossed in the darkness, in a storm-swept lake, far from shore, It’s buffeted by waves, with the wind against it. And a dark figure looms, walking on water, and you cannot see […]

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Believing Is Seeing (Miracles): “According to Your Faith, Let It Be Done to You.”

Anita Mathias — Sun, 28 May 2023 19:11:00 +0000

Matthew records, As Jesus walked on, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” He asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they replied. Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, let it be done to you”; and their sight was […]

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On Cancer, Declining Chemotherapy, Healing, and Future Plans

Anita Mathias — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:58:55 +0000

So hi there, I am back…back to regular blogging, back to health– physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively. So, news of my world: I had surgery for colon cancer on November 25th, 2014, which now feels very long ago—like a bad, surreal dream. I was offered chemotherapy, which would increase my odds of being alive in […]

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Walking on the Waters, Looking at Jesus, in the Shadow of the Big C (who Must not be Named)

Anita Mathias — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:01:30 +0000

I had a cancer scare two and a half years ago. Fear gripped my heart when I realised the doctor suspected endometrial cancer. Fears of chemotherapy–and, perhaps worse, death. My youngest daughter was just 12. I was by no means ready to die. And I lay down, and “saw” a vision. Christ walking towards me […]

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When Sarah snorted, but God had mercy on her, anyway

Anita Mathias — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:24:55 +0000

Arent de Gelder 1645-1727 Three white-clad men walk out of the desert, out of the shimmering sands. Calm holiness. Abraham, the Patriarch, “very wealthy in silver and gold, sheep and cattle and camels and male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants” runs to meet them, bows low to the ground, and offers him his most lavish […]

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God Breathes Stars–and Honour on His Beloved

Anita Mathias — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:10:05 +0000

“God breathed, and all the stars were born.” “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” NIV Psalm 33:6. “And he breathed on them, and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” John 20:22. The Lord breathes on us. At his breath, we are cloaked in gold dust, […]

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In Which I Resolve Not to Be Afraid

Anita Mathias — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:09:24 +0000

So the disciples row for “three or three and a half miles.” (I love these charming details, John striving to remember accurately–and how they make it easier for us to believe in the truth of these memoirs of Jesus.) It’s dark; the wind is raging; the waters are rough. And a figure looms out of […]

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A Little Bit of Theology for Victims of Burglaries (Which, Alas, I Have Just Been)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:08:13 +0000

So my grandfather, Piedade Felician Mathias, a distinguished surgeon, had invested his life savings in gold jewellery, because gold in India then, as now, rose faster than anything else. And my grandmother, trusting and sanguine as I am, left this on her dressing table. The maid vanished–as did the gold. Everyone wanted my grandfather to […]

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In Which All Our Faith is Patchy, But Even That is Potent

Anita Mathias — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:39:28 +0000

My eighteen-year old daughter, Zoe, is at the School of Ministry at Catch the Fire, Toronto. She and the other School of Ministry students ministered at the same Catch the Fire conference as John Arnott and Heidi Baker. They were told to pray boldly, that everyone gets to play, that everyone was equal before God. […]

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