The most difficult of the Lord's teaching:
Was Jesus Serious?
final in this series
I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer,
believe that you have received it, and it will be yours
So, you have a mountain to move, and no one can help.
Facing a mountain years ago, my reasonable prayers went for naught.
When I lost the long battle, I became a ferocious lion.
Jesus was going to prove himself real, or this Sunday School teacher and deacon was done with faith! Weeks of floor-pounding complaints and sleepless nights only weakened my health. This lion ... now a lamb.
I was clueless while the Lord stealthily worked me over, night after night. Somehow,
I began begging him to cleanse me with fire of every wrong that came to mind.
(Now we know, of course, no sin is "little" to him.)
A quiet Christmas week with no "merry" about it, and still, nothing resolved.
The first Sunday evening in January, I left a worship service, still empty.
As I opened the door of my little blue Chevy, a flood of his presence filled me.
I drove up the highway toward my apartment ... laughing, crying and pounding the steering wheel.
Coworkers at the office saw a difference. After three weeks, his felt presence lifted, leaving me with a testimony: Jesus Christ is the Truth!
I was the mountain He wanted to move. And I still need his grace and mercy.
Conclusion: YES
For your pleasure:
Genesis 50:20 Isaiah 25:1; 46:4 John 3:27; 14:13-14;
Exodus 33:14 Joel 2:25-27 15:5-8
Deut. 2:7; 32:9-12 Matthew 17:20 Romans 8:13-14; 10:17;
Psalm 23; 121; 18:30 Mark 9:23-24; 11:22-25 12:3
Hebrews 4:16; 12:1-6 James 4:3; 5:16
"This is the assurance we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him." 1 John 5:14-15
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