Many a time, our Lord does not answer our prayer as we expect and in our way. Our prayer will be answered only in His way and also when we submit to him in obedient faith.
There is a story in the Bible that tells us of a nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. He pleaded Jesus to go to Capernaum to heal his son who was at the point of death. And Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe. Jesus did not intend to go with Him to Capernaum. Instead Jesus was calling him to the highest possible faith. The nobleman must not first see but first believe the word of Jesus without any outward proof. (John 4:46-54)
Extraction from the Bible :
4:50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
4:52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
It is only when the nobleman put his complete trust in Jesus and received His word of healing and went his way, miracle happened. Not only he believed but his whole household. Our Lord not only meets his urgent need but also his deeper need - ie. to trust him without any outward proof.
May we in simple faith just trust Him to do all things well even though our needs may be very urgent and pressing and obeyed His word. He is sovereign.
There is a story in the Bible that tells us of a nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. He pleaded Jesus to go to Capernaum to heal his son who was at the point of death. And Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe. Jesus did not intend to go with Him to Capernaum. Instead Jesus was calling him to the highest possible faith. The nobleman must not first see but first believe the word of Jesus without any outward proof. (John 4:46-54)
Extraction from the Bible :
4:50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
4:51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
4:52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
It is only when the nobleman put his complete trust in Jesus and received His word of healing and went his way, miracle happened. Not only he believed but his whole household. Our Lord not only meets his urgent need but also his deeper need - ie. to trust him without any outward proof.
May we in simple faith just trust Him to do all things well even though our needs may be very urgent and pressing and obeyed His word. He is sovereign.
Yes Iris, just take Jesus at His words. Hallelujah.
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