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 6-30-2019 Weekly Message

Meditations of the Week: Psalms 13:1-6

Text: Mark 9:14-29

The title of the Word: If you can believe,…. all things are possible to him that believes

          Long time ago, when the Israelites were captured in Babylon, the Lord God took the prophet Ezekiel to the valley full of dried bones. And asked him,. ” Son of man, can these bones live? ” At this time Ezekiel answered the Lord, because he had no faith that the bones could live. “ O Lord GOD, thou knowest.” At this time the Lord God spoke to him. “

.” Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

5Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. “(Ezek. 37: 1-14).

         When Ezekiel had no faith, but when he spoke according to the words of the Lord God, it was fulfilled as it was said, and when he spoke the word of the Lord to let the bones breathe, they stood on their feet and became a great army. The Lord God said that  the Israelites would be brought back to the land of Israel by raising the Israelites who were scattered like dry bones and had no hope of renewing. As the Lord said, Israel was finally restored to its homeland and became an independent nation.

          The Lord God, who spoke to Ezekiel, appeared as a man, and spoke to a man speaks to a man whose son was suffering from epilepsy.  The disease called epilepsy was an incurable disease that could not be fixed at that time. The Lord said to his father:

” If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.“

        At this time he cried, crying miserably in his miserable situation:

” Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.“

        He confessed, “I believe,” in his own mouth, saying, “Help me without my faith.”

         Now we have to meditate deeply how we have come to believe in Christ who died for our sins according to the scriptures, and was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures, so that we have been saved in the law of the Spirit of life not destroyed in the eternal lake of fire in the law of sin and death,

           Apostle Paul made a clear testimony to the Saints of the Church of Ephesus about where our faith is from:

” For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. ” (Ephesians 2: 8-9)

          That’s right! If God had not given us faith, no one could be saved by the grace of God. Therefore, Apostle Paul testified to the saints in Rome about salvation, which he himself believed in the gospel of Christ and  received full grace of God:

” For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. ” (Romans 1:16)

           We fine a father whose son was suffering from epilepsy in the main scripture. The spirit of the devil often threw him into the fire to kill his son, and threw it into the water, causing him to shed bubbles. No one could help him. Even the disciples of the Lord were totally helpless.

         In the last days, the same devil, like a roaring lion, throws our children into the fire and throws them into the water. In addition, we are doing the same for ourselves and for other families. In this age like Sodom and Gomorrah, as the father was unable to save his son from epilepsy, we should consider whether we may in the same position to do nothing like his father. We pray while we look at our children and families, praying as faithfully as the father of the child, but we must ponder whether it is in incredible frustration in our thoughts.

        The word of the Lord to the father of the child is a word that should be noted.

” ” If thou canst believe,…. all things are possible to him that believeth.“

.When we pray and cannot believe, how can we express the frustration with words? In the words of the Lord, ” And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22).

      In this regard, Apostle Paul testified that ” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2For by it the elders obtained a good report.” (Hebrews 11: 1-2). In other words, praying in faith can be grateful and waiting as if it were done right away, even if it is not immediately visible before our eyes.

          In the journey to the kingdom in heaven, sometimes we are faced with dark things. We can do the same for ourselves as well as for our children and other families. It is not only spiritual but also mental and physical suffering. But we must not forget the sure message given to us through the Apostle Paul:

” For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.“(Romans 8: 38-39)

          That’s right! We pray whenever the devil in the world tries to take away our faith by putting a snare of trials before us, until the day the Lord appears in the air, crying, “I believe, please help me without my faith!” And to live a life that glorifies God by making all things possible by the power of the Almighty God.

 Amen! Hallelujah!