Good day dear friends! I trust this finds most of you ready to receive or go to, family and friends for this holiday weekend. I pray that each of you enjoy a special time of love, fellowship, and joy. May the real reason of this day be on our lips, hearts, and minds. Give thanks!
Here is our Tuesday and Wednesday study and prayer guides:
Tuesday: In Matthew 9:27-31. Read this special healing story. See how the Lord shared new vision with these men who needed it. Could not the same thing happen in terms of our spiritual blindness? Don’t we want the eyes of God to better see and understand the needs of the world? Those who know and walk with the Lord know His power and grace!
Here is the passage from Matthew 9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying loudly, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" 28 When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." 29 Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you." 30 And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly ordered them, "See that no one knows of this." 31 But they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district.
This story of healing involves two men who were blind. They had heard of Jesus' power to heal and thus they went with him to ask for their healing. Jesus' only question to them was about their faith in Him. "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" Their faith was strong and they replied, "Yes, Lord." Jesus touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you." And they received vision! And in a probably unexpected manner, Jesus told the men not to tell anyone about this. Verse 31 says they did exactly what you and I would have done. If you and I had been blind for any significant period of time, no, if you and I had been blind for one day and we were healed by Jesus, we're telling everyone! To overcome such a thing as blindness by faith in Jesus is worth telling everyone.
Jesus continues to heal today. You and I may not have physical limitations on our vision, but spiritually speaking many of us do. Jesus comes to deliver us even from that today. Jesus comes to open our eyes of faith to see the things of God all around us. It may be that Jesus once upon a time allowed your blindness to your sin to be removed and you asked for the sin to be removed. Who did you tell? It may be that Jesus opened your eye to an opportunity that blessed you beyond your wildest dreams, who did you tell?
The most powerful technology being invented and yet to come will never, never, replace the power of one person telling another person what Jesus can do for them. You don't know how much power of influence you have on the lives of others by simply talking to them and telling them about Jesus and what He can still do. What's holding you back?
PRAYER: God of power and might, remind me of what it means to see with eyes of faith Your hand at work all around me. Let me see and let me tell of Your great wonder and work. I pray in Jesus' name, amen.
WEDNESDAY:
For our day of prayer and purpose, take a sheet of paper and make two columns. On one side write down “What I used to know,” and on the other side, “What I know Now.” On the first column write down some spiritual things that you thought you fully understood. On the second column share there the new revelations that have come to you since you have known and walked with the Lord. At the bottom share your thoughts on the difference it has made in your life to have known and walked with the Lord thus far. If you haven’t yet come to Him, this is the exact thing for which you should pray. Ask the Lord to bring blessings of understanding to your life.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
Here is our Tuesday and Wednesday study and prayer guides:
Tuesday: In Matthew 9:27-31. Read this special healing story. See how the Lord shared new vision with these men who needed it. Could not the same thing happen in terms of our spiritual blindness? Don’t we want the eyes of God to better see and understand the needs of the world? Those who know and walk with the Lord know His power and grace!
Here is the passage from Matthew 9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying loudly, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" 28 When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." 29 Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you." 30 And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly ordered them, "See that no one knows of this." 31 But they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district.
This story of healing involves two men who were blind. They had heard of Jesus' power to heal and thus they went with him to ask for their healing. Jesus' only question to them was about their faith in Him. "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" Their faith was strong and they replied, "Yes, Lord." Jesus touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you." And they received vision! And in a probably unexpected manner, Jesus told the men not to tell anyone about this. Verse 31 says they did exactly what you and I would have done. If you and I had been blind for any significant period of time, no, if you and I had been blind for one day and we were healed by Jesus, we're telling everyone! To overcome such a thing as blindness by faith in Jesus is worth telling everyone.
Jesus continues to heal today. You and I may not have physical limitations on our vision, but spiritually speaking many of us do. Jesus comes to deliver us even from that today. Jesus comes to open our eyes of faith to see the things of God all around us. It may be that Jesus once upon a time allowed your blindness to your sin to be removed and you asked for the sin to be removed. Who did you tell? It may be that Jesus opened your eye to an opportunity that blessed you beyond your wildest dreams, who did you tell?
The most powerful technology being invented and yet to come will never, never, replace the power of one person telling another person what Jesus can do for them. You don't know how much power of influence you have on the lives of others by simply talking to them and telling them about Jesus and what He can still do. What's holding you back?
PRAYER: God of power and might, remind me of what it means to see with eyes of faith Your hand at work all around me. Let me see and let me tell of Your great wonder and work. I pray in Jesus' name, amen.
WEDNESDAY:
For our day of prayer and purpose, take a sheet of paper and make two columns. On one side write down “What I used to know,” and on the other side, “What I know Now.” On the first column write down some spiritual things that you thought you fully understood. On the second column share there the new revelations that have come to you since you have known and walked with the Lord. At the bottom share your thoughts on the difference it has made in your life to have known and walked with the Lord thus far. If you haven’t yet come to Him, this is the exact thing for which you should pray. Ask the Lord to bring blessings of understanding to your life.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
