I did not ask for it, I needed it, I wished for it, I wanted it. Everyone around me knew that I needed it but it never came, until that day.
I have asthma, it really sucks and I have had it all of my life. I have learned to live with it and despite many prayers and my faith being much bigger than a mustard seed, it has not happened yet. Does that affect my relationship with God? Yes, yes it does. It has caused me to believe stronger, to pursue a life of faith more. Most of all it has caused me to fall deeper in Love with the one who created me. You see, even though I believe that what He says is true when He said in Matthew 18:18-20
“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
The thing that most people tend to forget is the timing is still up to God. So I go about my days, having faith that God has heard, not only my prayers, but the declarations of those men and women of God who have their faith in with mine. Their prayers for me and on behalf of me. The very fact that God has touched their hearts to uphold me in their prayers shows me how much God cares and is concerned with my life. I know that the day He chooses as the day of my healing, it will be the perfect day for others to come to know Him. For me, the act of someone falling in love with their creator is the greatest miracle a person can receive. So why not be patient while I wait for God to completely heal me? I have an eternity to find out what a perfect body feels like.
I often wonder if that was how the beggar at the temple gate that was called Beautiful had felt? He was lame since birth, and a man that cannot work, has to beg. For most of his life, he sat there waiting, asking for those that could work to bestow upon him a portion of that which they made. He was at the mercy of them. He had to fully really on those other people who had to provide for him who could not work. Can you imagine some of the prayers between him and God? I can, because I have probably had similar ones. But this day, this time, this hour his whole life will be brought into its meaning, all of the ridicule, the pain, the embarrassment all gone in an instant. All because Peter chose to step out of his comfort zone and apply his faith, knowing that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. So he gets Johns attention and he speaks to the man, "Hey, buddy, look at me." Hundreds of people walk through that gate daily, maybe thousands. "Hey, buddy, look at me." So the beggar looks at Peter, trained to hear when someone was wanting to give him something. "Hey man, I don't have any money..." I can almost see the look of defeat begin to cross that mans face. But without a pause Peter says, "but I do have something, and I am going to give it all to you today. I have Jesus, and in the name of Jesus of Nazareth get up and walk!"
Surprise, Surprise, here is your healing. What an awesome gift God had given this man, so much that the man did not go home, he went into the temple and was Leaping, Walking and Praising God. And a lot people knew him, they had seen him in there for years, sitting there, and begging.
Then he gets up and grabs his arms around Peter and John and holds on to them. (vs 11) This man wanted to be healed. He was walking and jumping and praising God. He did on t want to be there, he did not want to be lame, I wonder how many times he prayed for God to heal him? All of that history in this man no longer mattered. He was healed, he could walk, jump, all of the things that he could never do. What I find to be so awesome is not only did God heal whatever the issue was that caused him to be lame, God also gave him the ability to know how to walk! And check this out:
Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed. So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. (Acts 3:11-16)
Peter and John use this miracle as a springboard to share with everyone at the temple the Gospel of Jesus. They gave credit where credit was due and then began to draw others in to having a relationship with Jesus.
I want everyone who reads this to know that I believe, I have faith that God desire is that I be healed, that everyone who caries an affliction be healed. I believe in the prayer of faith, putting my faith on healing for my body. Whenever I pray for someone I believe that God will hear my prayers and the person that I pray for will be healed. And I keep knocking, keep seeking, so that one day, when the time is right, the healing that God has for me and others will come to fruition! I can only pray that when it does, that people will be able to hear the gospel and that they would be drawn to a life changing relationship with the one who made them and loves them more that anyone could ever imagine, and that they would fall in love with Him.
I have asthma, it really sucks and I have had it all of my life. I have learned to live with it and despite many prayers and my faith being much bigger than a mustard seed, it has not happened yet. Does that affect my relationship with God? Yes, yes it does. It has caused me to believe stronger, to pursue a life of faith more. Most of all it has caused me to fall deeper in Love with the one who created me. You see, even though I believe that what He says is true when He said in Matthew 18:18-20
“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
The thing that most people tend to forget is the timing is still up to God. So I go about my days, having faith that God has heard, not only my prayers, but the declarations of those men and women of God who have their faith in with mine. Their prayers for me and on behalf of me. The very fact that God has touched their hearts to uphold me in their prayers shows me how much God cares and is concerned with my life. I know that the day He chooses as the day of my healing, it will be the perfect day for others to come to know Him. For me, the act of someone falling in love with their creator is the greatest miracle a person can receive. So why not be patient while I wait for God to completely heal me? I have an eternity to find out what a perfect body feels like.
I often wonder if that was how the beggar at the temple gate that was called Beautiful had felt? He was lame since birth, and a man that cannot work, has to beg. For most of his life, he sat there waiting, asking for those that could work to bestow upon him a portion of that which they made. He was at the mercy of them. He had to fully really on those other people who had to provide for him who could not work. Can you imagine some of the prayers between him and God? I can, because I have probably had similar ones. But this day, this time, this hour his whole life will be brought into its meaning, all of the ridicule, the pain, the embarrassment all gone in an instant. All because Peter chose to step out of his comfort zone and apply his faith, knowing that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. So he gets Johns attention and he speaks to the man, "Hey, buddy, look at me." Hundreds of people walk through that gate daily, maybe thousands. "Hey, buddy, look at me." So the beggar looks at Peter, trained to hear when someone was wanting to give him something. "Hey man, I don't have any money..." I can almost see the look of defeat begin to cross that mans face. But without a pause Peter says, "but I do have something, and I am going to give it all to you today. I have Jesus, and in the name of Jesus of Nazareth get up and walk!"
Surprise, Surprise, here is your healing. What an awesome gift God had given this man, so much that the man did not go home, he went into the temple and was Leaping, Walking and Praising God. And a lot people knew him, they had seen him in there for years, sitting there, and begging.
Then he gets up and grabs his arms around Peter and John and holds on to them. (vs 11) This man wanted to be healed. He was walking and jumping and praising God. He did on t want to be there, he did not want to be lame, I wonder how many times he prayed for God to heal him? All of that history in this man no longer mattered. He was healed, he could walk, jump, all of the things that he could never do. What I find to be so awesome is not only did God heal whatever the issue was that caused him to be lame, God also gave him the ability to know how to walk! And check this out:
Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed. So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. (Acts 3:11-16)
Peter and John use this miracle as a springboard to share with everyone at the temple the Gospel of Jesus. They gave credit where credit was due and then began to draw others in to having a relationship with Jesus.
I want everyone who reads this to know that I believe, I have faith that God desire is that I be healed, that everyone who caries an affliction be healed. I believe in the prayer of faith, putting my faith on healing for my body. Whenever I pray for someone I believe that God will hear my prayers and the person that I pray for will be healed. And I keep knocking, keep seeking, so that one day, when the time is right, the healing that God has for me and others will come to fruition! I can only pray that when it does, that people will be able to hear the gospel and that they would be drawn to a life changing relationship with the one who made them and loves them more that anyone could ever imagine, and that they would fall in love with Him.
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