RE-ESTABLISHED
In life trials and troubles will come our way, dreams may be destroyed, hope lost, these hurts often cause a barrier between our hearts and our relationship with the Lord, But God is faithful! He has not abandoned you or left you. He is still nearer than you realize. There must come a time however when we realize that we have moved away from the nearness of the Lord. Somewhere along the way, we dropped our faith and we find ourselves chopping with just an ax handle because somewhere we lost that edge:
Lets examine a story of Elisha from 2 kings 6 2Ki 6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2Ki 6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2Ki 6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
2Ki 6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

1.) Where did it fall? 2Ki 6:5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. "Oh, my lord," he cried out, "it was borrowed!"
2Ki 6:6 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" the first question I would ask of you is where did your relationship with the Lord fall? Bitterness can create an impenetrable wall around your heart. That will keep out the hurt but block out god as well. But if we like Job will take the words of God admonishing us to trust Him. We may not understand why. But God is still God, He doesn’t have to give a reason to us for why troubles come our way.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Though you may not understand why right now, Still God can take any circumstance and turn it for our benefit and good. If we simply trust Him again, Give Him the circumstance, He can and will turn it for your good.

2.) Miracles happen:
2Ki 6:6 When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. To find your miracle God may have you do something out of your comfort zone. But obedience to God will bring your miracle.
2Ki 6:7 "Lift it out," he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it. God’s plan is people but His method is Men. There may come a point when you must reach out in obedience to receive your Miracle. The ax head didn’t just suddenly reappear on the ax handle. Though no doubt God could have, but to receive the miracle first Elisha obeyed God and acted; then the worked obeyed by reaching out to receive the miracle. Many of the miracles Christ did required an action on the part of the individual. Some of us get this microwave religion; we want convenience, not work.


Often in life we are troubled, pain and loss come our way. Trials which shake us to the very core of our relationship with the Lord. Such was my case. In 1995 I had open heart surgery to have a metal heart valve placed in my heart. This began the destruction of my relationship. I began to wonder why God hadn’t healed me. He had used me over the years to bring many healings ranging from the healing of severe gout to literally re-growing an atrophied arm beneath my hand of another brother. I knew God could heal I was raised in a minister’s home God had used my father uncounted times in Miracle after miracle. And my grandfather who was an assembly of God minister had been very well know for the healings God brought through him,. Healing was a matter of fact in our home. But here I was now with a metal heart valve. Why did God abandon me in my hour of need? Two years later, I got married but one year into our marriage, I had a massive stroke, which destroyed 1/3 of the right side of my brain, ending twenty years of dreams and hopes in music. Doctors declared to my family that I could not/would not survive the night, at best they were told I would be a vegetable. However, God is faithful, I survived, I immediately began discovering the losses such as the necessity of relearning part of the Alphabet, I would get stuck at "p” every time. In addition, I had to relearn how to balance because part of my ability to balance died in the stroke. By 2004, I had worked my way through to a PhD. In Christian Counseling. However the belief that God had abandoned me persisted and grew with the death of my father and then in 2008 my wife and I divorced. This succeeded in closing off all ability to communicate with God; the temple of my heart was abandoned falling into disrepair. However, God is faithful; He persisted in drawing me back. Finally through a minor heartbreak, that knock me flat, leaving me with only one option, to call on God for help. He began to heal my brokenness. I rediscovered creativity and to my amazement, the God I was convinced wanted nothing to do with me, was still there, His Love suddenly became more real and stronger than ever in my life. He comforted and healed the brokenness of my spirit, enabling the re-establishment of our relationship. I began reading my Bible again. I returned to prayer and discovered God still wanted me around. In spite of how I had turned my back from Him in anger, He still loved me and wanted me around. God still Loves you too. You may be at your wits end you might even feel like I often did, that Rock bottom is a far distant point of light so far overhead that you had no hope of ever reaching it.

He loves me I felt so overjoyed
To realize that the God I believed
thought no more of me then annoyed
Really does want so much more for me
Though His desire was to be comforting
He allowed me to enter my darkest days
Even knowing how I’d turn away
And shake my weakened angry fist
At the God who wants my pains to lift
In tears He watched me in my pain
As I found no joy in life to gain.
He sat aside so patiently
Until the Day when I would see
the shackles that bound my life could finally
lie broken and rise to be
A mountain of chains set near his nail scarred feet.

I am Rev. Richard Spooner PhD.
5300 Palm Dr. Fort Pierce, Florida 34982
(772) 461-6581 or cell (772) 834-6702
I am an Ordained Bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland Tenn.)I have a PhD in Christian counseling. My ministry is to inner healing, restoration and recovery. I know brokenness intimately but I know victory as well. What God has done for me He can and will do for you as well. I also sing and play piano.