February 25
Mark 7:24-8:10
Today’s reading centers around a few of Jesus’s most famous miracles: casting out a demon, healing deafness, and multiplying the loaves and fish to feed the four thousand. These miracles have long been celebrated by the Church, but we can often forget that God’s power did not vanish along with Jesus’s ascension to heaven. Although the Bible is clear that God is, and always will be, as alive and active as ever, our culture has reduced the Christian faith to a nostalgic book club─falling into patterns of celebrating Jesus’s biblical miracles without acknowledging the power of our Living God.
Just as Jesus was eager to heal and provide for his children who cried for his help during his time on Earth, God yearns to aid his children who call out to him in faith. In Mark 7:24-30, the Gentile woman “begged” Jesus to cast out the “unclean” spirit from her daughter; in Mark 7:31- 37 the deaf man with a speech impediment’s friends “begged [Jesus] to lay his hand on him.” In these instances, people begged Jesus for healing, confident that his power was sufficient. Their big faith was still smaller than God’s power and mercy. So, if we want to experience God’s power, though not always in the way we want, we need run to him, cry out to him, and submit ourselves before him.
Father God, remind me that you are still the God of miraculous healing ─both physically and spiritually. Help me to boldly seek you and humbly ask you to work in my life. Amen.
Do you truly believe that God can and will listen to your prayers when you ask for healing? If you’re doubtful, why?
Today’s reading centers around a few of Jesus’s most famous miracles: casting out a demon, healing deafness, and multiplying the loaves and fish to feed the four thousand. These miracles have long been celebrated by the Church, but we can often forget that God’s power did not vanish along with Jesus’s ascension to heaven. Although the Bible is clear that God is, and always will be, as alive and active as ever, our culture has reduced the Christian faith to a nostalgic book club─falling into patterns of celebrating Jesus’s biblical miracles without acknowledging the power of our Living God.
Just as Jesus was eager to heal and provide for his children who cried for his help during his time on Earth, God yearns to aid his children who call out to him in faith. In Mark 7:24-30, the Gentile woman “begged” Jesus to cast out the “unclean” spirit from her daughter; in Mark 7:31- 37 the deaf man with a speech impediment’s friends “begged [Jesus] to lay his hand on him.” In these instances, people begged Jesus for healing, confident that his power was sufficient. Their big faith was still smaller than God’s power and mercy. So, if we want to experience God’s power, though not always in the way we want, we need run to him, cry out to him, and submit ourselves before him.
Father God, remind me that you are still the God of miraculous healing ─both physically and spiritually. Help me to boldly seek you and humbly ask you to work in my life. Amen.
Do you truly believe that God can and will listen to your prayers when you ask for healing? If you’re doubtful, why?
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