Yes, and also consider the man born blind. It’s easy for people to fall into this trap that because they don’t have (insert thing here) that therefore they lack faith and/or must be sinning.
The disciples asked whose sin it was, his or his parents, that this man was born blind? But Christ answered neither. The faith is submitting to the will of God, not in believing that God is, and then asserting one’s own will.
So then in this example, Christ acts in His time, and the previously blind man later demonstrates faith. Did he have faith before? Probably, but it isn’t explicitly told in that order as it is with the bleeding woman.
Point is, while one with faith *could* uproot a mulberry tree, and the article correctly gets the connection between thought and utterance (hello? The *what* made flesh? Oh, that), one shouldn’t pridefully or despairingly regard ‘my’ faith. Even that is a gift.
Like Paul’s thorn in the flesh and his problems with his eyes.
Or Timothy’s stomach problems.
There are no Scriptural examples of anyone making positive confessions for healing. They asked God or God sent someone along to lay hands on them, but it’s always God initiated, not man.
Our words do not create reality. That is God’s purview. He did not give us that kind of power.
Could you imagine the chaos that would ensue if everyone started declaring their own reality and making it happen?
Praying with Commitment -Protestant Caucus/Devotional Posted on 3/22/2023, 7:44:12 AM by metmom "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10). Your prayers make a difference! Matthew 6:10 literally says, "Whatever you wish to have happen, let it happen immediately. As your will is done in heaven, so let it be done on earth." That's a prayer of active commitment to God's will. |