Thought for the day.

[GODSCHILD]

Scripture: Matthew 9: 2

Some men brought to him a paralyitc, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic. "Take heart, son, your sins are forgiven."

Thought: Christ did not ask the man on the mat, if he had faith. He saw the faith of those that brought him. Belief when we pray is the same type of faith. You can say pretty words and ask for healing, but do you have the faith to believe. Every day we are tested, and we stumble in out faith. Someone dies that we have prayed for. The prayer that we prayed does not get answered the way WE wanted it to be answered. But FAITH is the ability to believe, wait and accept the answers that GOD has for us. The faith of the afflicted isn't the question, the faith of those praying is. DO you HAVE the FAITH to BELIEVE. God answered every prayer you prayed, look back and see the answers. He healed that friend that died, when he welcomed them into his arms. He solved your crisis, in his way. "GOD answers, do you have the FAITH to accept his answers?"

[Christ's Free Servant]

Scripture:  Matthew 9: 2

Some men brought to him a paralyitc, lying on a  mat.  When Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic.  "Take heart, son, your sins are forgiven."

Thought:  Christ did not ask the man on the mat, if he had faith.  He saw the faith of those that brought him.  Belief when we pray is the same type of faith.  You can say pretty words and ask for healing, but do you have the faith to believe.  Every day we are tested, and we stumble in out faith.  Someone dies that we have prayed for.  The prayer that we prayed does not get answered the way WE wanted it to be answered.  But FAITH is the ability to believe, wait and accept the answers that GOD has for us.  The faith of the afflicted isn't the question, the faith of those praying is.  DO you HAVE the FAITH to BELIEVE.  God answered every prayer you prayed, look back and see the answers.  He healed that friend that died, when he welcomed them into his arms.  He solved your crisis, in his way.  "GOD answers, do you have the FAITH to accept his answers?"

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YES!!! Thanks so much for sharing this insightful thought for the day. It is so true that when things don't go the way we think they should that we have a tendency to lose faith, but that is misdirected faith. We are then putting our faith in our circumstances instead of the Almighty God who is Sovereign and whose ways our not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts. We should put our faith in his Sovereignty, meaning in his wisdom to make the right decisions and to know what is best for us even if it doesn't make sense to us.

There is a scripture where God is talking to one of his servants who was questioning him and he said something like who are we, the clay, to question the potter? Does he not have the right to do what he wants with the clay? He really got down on Job when Job was lamenting over his miserable life (for good reason, mind you) and he began to question Job and ask him "where were you when the earth was formed," etc.

Faith in God means we trust him to make the right decisions. If we get upset with him and our faith is shattered, then we had our "faith" in the wrong things.

[jc49]

Scripture:

[Christ's Free Servant]

yes,easy to say this...but may be when you go through something like what job went through you or me may fall in the lamentations of Jeri...I mean..at the moment I am in such dire straits that unless I trust that He knows better I'll die...but I still complain..I am not proud of it but I really don't get what He is doing and why and etc.. etc..so

PRAY FOR ME thanks

Shalom

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You are so right. It is easy to say and harder to do. None of us knows for sure how we will respond in any given situation. I think sometimes it is easier to respond correctly to the BIG stuff, because you see it for what it is. What gets me is the little stuff that kind of sneaks in the back door and I don't see it coming and then all of a sudden I am responding badly and I wonder, "where did that come from?"

When I said "yes," I meant that is the attitude of my heart. I am willing to accept whatever God hands me. If I get blindsighted, my initial response might not be so good, but my intention is to always trust that God knows best. He has taken me through a lot of tough stuff in my life in preparation for the BIG stuff to come, I believe, and he has never failed me yet, so I have no reason not to trust him.