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Friends,
today in the Gospel Jesus demonstrates the power of the prayer of
faith. Have you noticed how Jesus, time and again, says to people before
working a miracle, "Do you believe I can do this?" Once, Matthew tells
us, Jesus was unable to perform many miracles because he met with so
little faith among the people.
Lots
of people today, especially in the healing ministry, seem able to
reproduce what Jesus did, precisely because of the purity of their
faith. Is part of our problem simply a lack of faith? We allow our
skepticism to get the better of us; we're just a little embarrassed by
asking God for things, or we're convinced that he is a distant power
only vaguely connected to our lives.
Can
you hear the simple faith in the opening line of Jesus' great prayer:
"Abba in heaven…"? Another astonishing line of Jesus in this regard is
this: "I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have
received it and it will be yours." Even before you receive it, believe
that it is yours and give thanks for it, blithely confident that you
will receive it.
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