I Believe In Jesus

I believe in Jesus, I believe He is the Son of God
I believe He died and rose again, I believe He paid for us all.
And I believe that He’s here now, standing in our midst.
With the power to heal now and the grace to forgive. [Marc Nelson]

Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, “Don’t be afraid, just believe.” [Mark 5:36]

he scenes were set, two distraught fathers; one from Mark 5 above and one from Mark 9: 23 - 24, bringing their ill and demon possessed children to Jesus, hoping that He would be able to heal them.  Jesus said to the second father, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”  Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

The two situations had gone from bad to worse, the disciples had tried and failed to heal the demon possessed boy (according to Jesus – directly due their unbelief!), everyone was telling the father of the little girl not to bother Jesus – she was already dead.  Jesus, with compassion, heals both the children but in doing so reveals that we have an active part to play when we ask God for His intervention in our lives when He says to one father “don’t be afraid, just believe,” and to the other “all things are possible to him who believes.” 

We can’t just ask God for healing or help, we have to believe too.  In other words when we lift our prayers up to God we can’t take them back when He doesn’t respond as fast as we think He should.  How many times do we do that, give our worries and troubles to God and then take them back to angrily go it alone without Him or just for the pleasure of continuing to worry!?

Ephesians 3:20 tells us that God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can ask or think. But the rest of the verse says, “…according to the power at work in us.” In other words, God has a part to play, and we have a part to play.  When we read His word, study His promises and pray those promises back to Him, we will begin to pray in the strong belief that God is powerful enough to do all we ask and more – we will begin to believe and work in His strength.

-c anderson

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