“because of your faith it will happen” Matt. 9:29
“your faith is great. Your request is granted.” Matt. 15: 28
“Your faith has made you well.” Matt. 9:22
The above passages show us that having faith is what led to the completion of their requests. I would say that they had “Faith of Followers”. Followers of Christ do not pray weak, superficial, last resort prayers. They pray with the knowing that God will listen and will reply. They have the faith and hope that God will reply. Not always immediate. But in His time.
Sometimes after we pray a prayer, it is quiet. Weeks go by, no reply. Months, no reply. Years, and still no reply. The Lord seems to not be listening. That’s where the faith comes in again. We have to have faith that He will listen and He will reply in His own time and His own way.
As believers we should seek to have this kind of faith. Faith that does not waver. Does not fall apart during times of silence. Faith that is audacious, bold and ready for anything. Our faith cannot be put in the background. It needs to be front and foremost.
“I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Matt. 17:20
Joel,
ReplyDeleteThis is so true. It's easy to have faith when everything is easy and when we aren't going through hard times. But, as soon as we go through trials, we often doubt God just because we are going through something hard. And the funny thing is that we complain, but we don't realize how our trials can make us grow and strengthen our faith. We have faith in a chair to hold us up, but we don't have faith in the God of the Universe, who created the materials that make up the chair? It doesn't quite make sense does it? ;)