TOPIC: DO YOU BELIEVE I AM ABLE TO DO THIS?
The Lord will do for you what you believe He can do.
Often, we ask God to do things we ourselves doubt He can do.
Matthew 9:29-30 (NKJV) And when He had come into 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, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” 30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows it.”
We have a role to play in our healing, and that role is to believe.
Belief is the key to both salvation and miracles.
Do you believe this? It has become specific.
This is a question about the Supreme Being that challenges and captivates human understanding.
John 11:25-26(NKJV)25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
This is the question of faith – one that everyone who encounters Jesus must answer.
It defines God’s supreme power.
We are the ones holding ourselves back because we believe in nothing, we get nothing.
Mark 6:5 (NLT) And because of their unbelief, he couldn’t do any miracle among them except to place His hands on a few sick people and heal them.
John 20:27 (NT) Then He said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer believe”
Ezekiel found himself in the same predicament and answered ‘O Lord God, thou knowest.’ Ezk. 37:3
Job said ‘I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.’ (Job 42:2 KJV)
The measure of your faith is found in your belief system.
John 11: 39-40 (NKJV) 39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?
As soon as the word is released, and your spirit catches it, miracles happen.
John 4:49-53 (NKJV)49The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
Believing God is more challenging in a crises time.
Mark 9:19-27 (NKJV)He answered him and said, “O faithless[a] generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I [b]bear with you? Bring him to Me.” 20 Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth.21 So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?”And he said, “From childhood. 22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”23 Jesus said to him, “If[c] you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” 26 Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
A look at the man’s answer ‘ I believe, please help my unbelief.’
Here the father submits what faith he has alongside his doubt and fear.
It is emphatically clear that if you don’t believe, you go nowhere with Jesus.
John 8:24 (NIV)I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”
John 10:38 (NLT)38 But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don’t believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
If you don’t trust , you can’t believe
John 5:47 (NLT)47 But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
You can’t obey and believe what you don’t trust.
Joshua 24:15 (KJv)15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
John 14:1 (NLT)Don’t let your hearts be troubled, trust in God, and trust also in me.
Do you believe on the Son of God?
John 9:35-40 (KJV)35Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. 38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
John 20:31 (KJV)31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Nothing is too difficult for you.
Jer. 32:17 (NLT)17 “Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Jere 32:27 (NLT)“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?