Miracles

Hi ladies, just wanted to share with you something I wrote last year. The follow up wrting to this will I blog tommorow.


(26 April 2011)

I have never in my live seen a healing miracle. I have heard of them, read about them on the internet or even in the Bible. I believe that God can and is able to do anything if we believe. I wonder if believing has different levels. I wonder if and when we pray for a healing miracle that first God should tell us to pray about it or that we should pray because we are hoping for God to heal us.

My baby has a heart defect. Her name is Mutago, 6 years. We went to Cape Town 2 weeks ago, hoping to get an operation but her temperature was high, going up and down and they couldn’t operate.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways” declares the Lord. 1

At this very moment in my life I know that God always has a plan for all of us. And I know that He has a plan for Mutago as well. When we were in SA I read scriptures on how Jesus used to heal, and how the healings were instantaneous. I know and believe that for our prayers to be answered we need to live a dedicated life to Jesus and to God the Father. I know that God gives even to sinners the things they ask, and even to Christians whose lives are not 100% committed to Him, but only because He is a merciful God. But there are things that truly need the hand of God, like miracles, things that stun us when they happen. And I believe, when we ask for such things we should truly be committed to God to move His heart. Jesus said.
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”  2
This verse shows me clearly that there is a condition given for answered prayer. The verse doesn’t say “what God desires” but “what you desire”. Most times when I ask for something, I often wonder ‘is this what God wants? Does God really want to reconstruct Muta’s heart? Of course sometimes God’s plans and desires are not ours, but till when am I going to doubt when I ask for something thinking ‘maybe it’s not God’s will’. But in all I know that it’s God’s will to heal us. When I look at how Jesus healed people or even how the apostles healed, they didn’t wonder if it is God’s will to heal that specific person, because they already knew that it is God’s good pleasure and desire to give us our hearts desires if we abide in Him, and His words abide in us. Out of fear we say ‘God will do it if it’s His will, if not so be it’. When are we to get our desires, if we first have to check if our desires are God’s desires?

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