FAITH UNDER PRESURE

FAITH UNDER PRESURE

LUKE 8.50

 

Your daughter is dead.  Don't bother the teacher anymore.

Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus,

"Don't be afraid.

Just believe,

 and she will be healed."

Luke 8.50

I want some things that I believe are good and right.

 

I ask, thinking, "Whatever I ask in Jesus' Name He will do for me.

 

I believe, but it is not happening the way I want, not "right now."

 

I am to trust.

 

When what I want is not provided when I want it,
God has something extra special, better than what I asked.

 

Call to Me and I will answer you

and show you great and mighty things

...exceedingly, abundantly above all you can ask or think.

Jeremiah 33.3; Ephesians 3.20-21

 

On the way to Jairus' sick daughter, Jesus stopped to help a woman who had been sick for twelve years.
Jesus let her touch Himself.  
She was instantly healed, after all that time.

Jairus had to wait a short few minutes and then was told it was too late.  His daughter had died.

Jairus' brief time of waiting must have seemed like years.

Her 12 years.  Jairus, twenty minutes?

Long term endurance vs. brief agony.

Both required a long wait.

Jesus was not immediate, instantaneous in responding to either one.

Jesus never fixed anything for anyone without  requiring a greater degree of faith than the person they had before they came to Him. 

What ever problem we have when we come to Jesus, His response requires a greater degree of faith than we had before.

When we cry out to God for help, He always answers in a way that either develops or demonstrates our faith. 

The centurion had adequate faith for You to act in his behalf.

So did the bleeding woman.

Jairus was required to trust a very little time, but in the greatest of anguish.

The disciples were put into a storm and had to awaken Jesus, who  challenged their "little faith." 

A woman whose son died was given grace out of Your heart. 

She did not even know to ask.

A forgiven woman responded in a dramatic way to the love You extended to her with only a few words. 

Jesus helps us in a way that always increases our faith.

All the issues of life are opportunities to have our faith increased.

If we are wanting help, Jesus will open our eyes that we may see Himself more clearly and therefore have greater faith.

This is how we grow in grace and knowledge of Who He is.

 

Big question:  Do you believe Jesus can and will help you?

 Two blind men followed Him.

When He had gone indoors, the blind men came to Him, and He asked them,

"Do you believe that I am able do this?"

                                "Yes, Lord," they replied.

Then He touched their eyes and said,

"According to your faith let it be done to you."

Matthew 9.28-29

 

Jesus knows our needs. 

He knows the best way to help us.

He helps in a way that increases our understanding of Who He is.

His help increases our faith in His goodness, grace, greatness, and  glory.

"Don't be afraid; 

just

BELIEVE."