Good Evening!
I trust you had a great weekend and are rested and ready for the coming week. Don't forget to keep your eyes on Jesus.
Mark 9:23-24 says “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
One of my first Wednesday night sermons was on this verse, and it came back up in my devotions recently.
Do we truly believe that God can do anything that we ask?
Do we truly believe God WILL do when we ask of Him?
If we look at the difference between these two questions, that difference is our unbelief. I admit it, there are a lot of things I doubt He will do if I ask. Sometimes, I even wonder if He is listening or cares enough to listen
I know in my head, that He is, but that little bit of doubt sometimes raises its ugly head.
I believe that if we are honest with ourselves, We will find that we don't believe in God as much as we say we do, or even as much as we want to. I want the level of belief (the faith) of the apostles in the book of Acts where they look at a crippled man and tell Him, out loud to get up and walk, in front of crowds. That's faith that God won't leave the apostles hanging and looking like a bunch fools. I want that kind of faith.
We should ALL have faith that is strong like that. Jesus says that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, that we can tell a mountain to be cast into the sea, and it will be so. Did Jesus mean that literally? I believe so. It gets interpreted in a spiritual lesson most times, but remember, God SPOKE this world into existence. He can do it. How do we get that level of belief or faith? Through Christ.
Father, help our unbelief. Forgive our unbelief. If we look back over our lives, we can start to see the God has ALWAYS been faithful to us and has proven that we can believe in Him. The interesting thing, I find, is that the more belief we have, the more we can truly rest and abide in Him.
May our belief in Him grow today. May we keep our eyes on Him and rest in Him today. May His favor ever be upon us today. Amen
I trust you had a great weekend and are rested and ready for the coming week. Don't forget to keep your eyes on Jesus.
Mark 9:23-24 says “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
One of my first Wednesday night sermons was on this verse, and it came back up in my devotions recently.
Do we truly believe that God can do anything that we ask?
Do we truly believe God WILL do when we ask of Him?
If we look at the difference between these two questions, that difference is our unbelief. I admit it, there are a lot of things I doubt He will do if I ask. Sometimes, I even wonder if He is listening or cares enough to listen
I know in my head, that He is, but that little bit of doubt sometimes raises its ugly head.
I believe that if we are honest with ourselves, We will find that we don't believe in God as much as we say we do, or even as much as we want to. I want the level of belief (the faith) of the apostles in the book of Acts where they look at a crippled man and tell Him, out loud to get up and walk, in front of crowds. That's faith that God won't leave the apostles hanging and looking like a bunch fools. I want that kind of faith.
We should ALL have faith that is strong like that. Jesus says that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, that we can tell a mountain to be cast into the sea, and it will be so. Did Jesus mean that literally? I believe so. It gets interpreted in a spiritual lesson most times, but remember, God SPOKE this world into existence. He can do it. How do we get that level of belief or faith? Through Christ.
Father, help our unbelief. Forgive our unbelief. If we look back over our lives, we can start to see the God has ALWAYS been faithful to us and has proven that we can believe in Him. The interesting thing, I find, is that the more belief we have, the more we can truly rest and abide in Him.
May our belief in Him grow today. May we keep our eyes on Him and rest in Him today. May His favor ever be upon us today. Amen
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