Faith!

Faith!

Mark 9:23 AMP

[23] Jesus said to him, “[You say to Me,] ‘If You can?’ All things are possible for the one who believes and trusts [in Me]!”

Do your problems push you more toward God or toward human options? When things go wrong, as they will definitely do, what/who is your first port of call? Do you go loud, or do you go private? A few of these questions must have agitated the mind of this father as he considered his options. He had a son who was possessed with a spirit that made the son unable to speak. Think of the wickedness of the devil who would stop there, but at any time the devil seized the boy, intending to do him harm, it will throw him down, foaming at the mouth, grinding his teeth, often throwing him both into fire and into water, intending to kill him. Reflect on the power of the devil to steal, kill and destroy. As long as he is given the room to operate, there is no end to the havoc he can wreak. Fortunately, there is a God who is more powerful, whose mission is to give life in all its abundance. 

That is the God this father came to meet. The disciples were the first to encounter father and son, but they could not help the man. When the father met Jesus, he listed all the damage the devil had caused, and asked for help. His statement led to the comments of Jesus in the verse above; he asked: "But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”. The father spoke from a place of total helplessness and frustration. This boy had been in this condition since childhood and no solution was in sight. When an movable object comes in contact with an immovable rock, guess which one will change position. It had to be the problem. Jesus' response too is instructive. The father asked Jesus to help if He could, and apart from stating categorically that He could, He also laid down a fundamental policy for all who believe in Him: they too can do all He can. 

Jesus is able to move all mountains, no matter how long they have been in place. He is able to change any circumstance, no matter how stubborn or generational. The joy is that He gives the same power to all who have put their total trust in Him. It is not the mouth profession alone that is empty of power, but the heart conviction that makes a man stay the course even when the wind and the waves are against him. As long as the basis of my faith lines up with the will and word of God, He assures me that nothing will be impossible for me. Jesus says that for Him, as well as all who are IN Him, there is no impossibility; there is nothing so far gone that cannot be changed. The encouragement here is that God does not discriminate. He is not looking for the rich, the powerful or the connected; just the yielded. He will sort out the rest. Have faith in God; the world waits for the earnest manifestation of the sons of God. Are you one? Am I indeed one? God's time of favour is here.