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Unusual Remedies That Work

Masking Tape

Riding horses cross-country with friends was something I’ve enjoyed doing for nearly fifty years. I am not really a horseman, but my friends are. I am just a rider.

One year a dozen or more of us were camped at the Horseman’s Camp in Brown County State Park in Indiana. One of the riders, Jack Cunningham, cut the palm of his hand very deep while out on the trail.

We all searched our saddlebags but none of us had any antibiotic, gauze or Band-Aids. With his uninjured hand, Jack found a roll of masking tape in bottom of his saddlebag. “Here, this will work perfectly,” he said with great assurance.

I argued with him and said that it wasn’t made for healing or wrapping wounds, but for construction use.

Jack said, “I’m a carpenter. One day at work I cut myself. There were no supplies there either and all I had was this tape. I used it and the next morning, my cut was healed.”

“This cut in my palm will be completely closed and only a pink line will be showing in the morning. You’ll see.”

The next morning we all gathered around as he removed to tape to see for ourselves if this remedy worked or not. To our astonishment, the cut was closed and a pink line looked back at us. We shook our heads in amazement.

Unusual Home Remedies Are Nothing New.

We’ve Used Them Most Of Our Lives.

Hairspray To Remove Pencil Or Ink

I use hairspray to take pencil markings off of the wall, or ink out of my white shirt. After spraying the area, I rub it with a rough cloth similar to a washcloth.

Stop Hiccups With Sugar

Our family has used sugar to immediately stop the hiccups in infants, children and adults for many years.

(A teaspoon of sugar swallowed dry can stop hiccups in minutes, says Andre Dubois, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the emerging infectious diseases graduate program at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. – http://www.prevention.com)

Books Are Written About Man’s Unusual Remedies.

Some of them work. Some of them don’t.

A Book Has Already Been Written About God’s Unusual Remedies.

• He always has unusual solutions to our everyday problems.
• Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
• Job 9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
• His remedies catch us off guard

Here Are A Sampling Of God’s Unusual Remedies

Israel Had No Weapons To Defend Them In Battle.

• No problem! God sent hornets and drove the enemy off.
• Exodus 23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

Gideon? You Have Only 300 Armed Men Against 100,000 Armed Midianites?

• No problem! Get 300 trumpets, pitchers and lamps and you’ll be fine.
• Judges 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Your Borrowed Axe Head Flew Off The Handle Into The Bottom Of The Lake?

• No Problem. Throw in this stick and the axe head will float to the top.
• 2 Kings 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
• 2 Kings 6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

You Got A Wall Six Feet Wide And Fifty Feet Tall That Is Keeping You From Being Blessed?

No Problem. Walk around it once a day for six days and on the seventh day walk around it seven times. Don’t say a word the whole time. Then after the seventh time around on the last day… When the trumpet sounds, lift up your voices and shout. The wall will come down.

You’ve Got 5,000 Hungry Men Plus Women And Children Here With No Food!

• No problem. These five loaves of bread and two little fish will be enough.
• Mark 6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

You Have The Palsy And Can’t Move Or Walk?

• No Problem. I’ll forgive your sins and you will be made normal.
• Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

Are You Barely Able To Get By On Your Paycheck?

• No problem, God says give Him 10% of your increase and He will make the 90% that is left go further than the 100% you originally had.
• Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Do You Need A Financial Blessing?

• Give and it shall be given to you.
• Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Sir, You’re Blind And You Can’t See?

• No Problem. Here, let me spit on the ground make it into clay and rub it in your eye.
• John 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
• John 9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

Have You Run Out Of Wine For The Wedding Celebration?

• No problem. Fill up those jugs with water. And go pour them into the cups.
• John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
• John 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

Haven’t Caught Anything?

• No problem. Cast your nets on the right side of the boat.
• John 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
• John 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

Are You Bleeding To Death And The Doctors Can’t Help You?

• No problem. Just touch the hem of my robe.
• Matthew 9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
• Matthew 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
• Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

Can’t Pay The Taxes?

• No problem. Go fishing and I will put a fish on your hook that has money in it’s mouth.
• Matthew 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Preacher Are You Hungry?

• No problem, I’ll fly your breakfast right in on raven’s wings.
• 1 Kings 17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
• 1 Kings 17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

If you cannot see the Hand of God working just like you imagined it should to fix your problem. Just trust Him anyway. His ways are above ours. They are past finding out. He will always come through for you.

God Not Only Has THE Remedy For Removing Sin, It Is Always Unusual.

After You Repent: God Will Remove All Of Your Sins, If:

• If you will stand in a pool of water and let the pastor baptize you, (by immersion), while he pronounces the words, “In The Name Of Jesus Christ.” Immediately your sins will be gone!

Jesus Said For His Disciples To Do It.

• Luke 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
• Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Peter Said It And Did It At Pentecost!

• Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Baptism In Jesus Name Will Wash Away Your Sins!

Ananias Said To Paul:

• Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

This is the only cure and it is quite unusual. But, I promise you it will work. It has never failed.

God’s unusual remedy to take away all sin and remove one’s past is to simply let an Apostolic Pastor immerse you in water and say, “In The Name of Jesus,” when he baptizes you.

When you come out of that water, you sins will be gone. God will choose to remember them no more against you. They will be cast behind His back as far as the East is from the West.

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.