Ask - Pray

May 19, 2014 Monday Message:

It is not the Church’s business in this world to simply make your present condition, your current misery, more bearable. God’s intention is not to make you feel more at ease in the mire; rather, He will lift you up and place you on a solid rock. (Psalm 40:2)

God is always willing to help; miracles still happen. But first we need to ask him. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened.” (Luke 11:9)

Oftentimes we under-ask – we ask for far less than God wants to give. The lame man at the healing pool just asked for help getting into the water when it moved. Jesus wanted to give him new legs. (John 5)

Are we willing to settle for less than God is willing to give? Are your low expectations robbing you of all that God could do to help? By assuming the impossibility of your situation, are you limiting God? Understand that you can’t limit God, but you can limit your expectations of what God can do for you.

The blind guy on the road to Jericho got it right.

Jesus asked, “What do you want me to do for you.”

And he replied, “I want to see!”

And Jesus said, “Receive your sight – your faith has healed you!”

Miracles require faith, faith that God can and will do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship (JICF) meets every Sunday, at 10:30am, in the North end (gym) of the Oliver Ministry Building, 2647 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis. This week Pastor Michael Pilla continues our study in Acts.