Do you believe?

5. September 2008 by Bernice Davis.

Hello: 

Our text for today is:

Matthew 9:27 “As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” 28 When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they replied. 29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you”; 30 and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” 31 But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.”

As you can see our texts lately have been one miracle after the next.  If you’re following the study of Matthew then you know that Jesus was first established as a teacher and then it was established that he has the power to forgive sins and now he is being established as a miracle worker.   

If you watch closely at the miracles you will see that they happen different ways.  In one instance the friends bring a paralytic to Jesus and Jesus heals them based on the friends’ faith, at other times the parents bring a request on behalf of their children and are asked if they believe and one answer has been, Lord I believe, but help my unbelief.   Another situation is the woman with the issue of blood whose faith healed her and in the case today, Jesus ask the blind men if they believe that he was able to do it and the text says that according to their faith it was done unto them.

I bring this to your attention because so often I hear in the body of Christ, formulas for healing and miracles.  Often times when people get healed they turn their testimony into a formula that if you do this or that then it shall happen to you for after all God is no respecter of persons.  Sound familiar? 

Then when we do what they say and if the miracle does not occur we are often told that it was because we didn’t believe for if we truly had faith then what you desired would have happened.   This is dangerous theology.   God deals with people in different ways.  Our destinies are different and God aligns things towards that “expected end.”   

For Jeremiah 29:11 says  “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

Just because something happened for someone else it does not guarantee that God will deal with you that same way especially when it comes to healings and miracles.    I have personally been in situations where I have seen God raise up people off their sick beds and others have died.

We still have to believe God and quote his word in our situations but when we have done all that we can do, the rest is in the hands of God and we must bow to the sovereign will of God no matter what the outcome.

So today the Question is:  “Do you believe that I am able to do this.”    Somehow that is so powerful and comforting to me.  If we ask that question today in our situation and if the answer is yes then you should have just got strengthened and encouraged. 

Hopelessness comes when you don’t think God or anyone else can help you in your circumstances and you can’t see your way out.    

Do you believe that God is able to do this?    Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I believe. 

Stay encouraged!!!!!!!!   

Have a great weekend and I’ll see you Monday in text land.   

God Bless!!!!!!!!!! 

Don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.

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