a compelling desire for change
…The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]
James 5:16
Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional For Tuesday 27th July 2021
Any kind of positive change you might desire is possible in the Name of Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Looking through the Scriptures, you’d find examples of people who were desperate for a change and what they did. You too can learn what they learnt, act as they did and get what they got.
Take Hannah for an example. For many years, she remained childless until she decided she must have a miracle. She went into the house of the Lord, fell on her face before God and prayed, made a vow and prevailed.
How compelled are you to change your financial status? How compelled are you to change your health situation? How compelling is your desire to move to the next level and experience the supernatural in your daily walk, in your ministry, academics, business or career?
Success and progress in any area requires very simple and basic principles. One of such is a strong compelling desire. Let your desire be strong enough to compel you to take the right and necessary actions. In Mark 5:25-29, we see another striking example of an actualised desire for change. It’s the account of the woman with the issue of blood who, having suffered for twelve long years, made up her mind to receive a miracle.
Compelled by her desire, she pressed through an impossible crowd to get to Jesus, defying the injunction that forbade her from having physical contact with other people. The haemorrhage she suffered made her ceremonially unclean therefore, she stood the risk of being stoned to death if found in public, following the Jewish law of the day (Leviticus 15:25-27).
However, her desire for freedom, for her healing, compelled her to act her faith and she got a miracle. In Mark 9:23, Jesus said, “…all things are possible to him that believeth.” So, it makes no difference where you are in your life today, anything is possible. Act on God’s Word. Act your faith and be absolute about the result that you want, and it shall be so.
Confession
Thank you, dear Father, for my triumphant life in Christ I’m a success I walk in victory, divine wisdom, and the dominion of the Spirit, because my faith is active, and I see and live by the true light of your Word, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Studies
Luke 18 1-8
1 - And He also spoke a parable to them to teach it is always right to pray, and not to faint,
2 - saying, A certain judge was in a certain city, not fearing God, nor respecting man.
3 - And a widow was in that city. And she came to Him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary.
4 - And he would not do so for a time. But afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God nor regard man,
5 - yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, that she not wear me down in the end.
6 - And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.
7 - And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?
8 - I say to you that He will avenge them speedily. Yet when the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?
Hebrews 11 32-33
32 - And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets,
33 - who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Mark 5 25-29
25 - And a certain woman who had had an issue of blood twelve years,
26 - and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and had not been bettered any, but rather came to worse,
27 - having heard about Jesus, she came in the press behind and touched His garment.
28 - For she said, If I may but touch only His clothes, I will be cured.
29 - And instantly the fountain of her blood dried up. And she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
1 Year Bible Reading Plan
Romans 2 1-29,Psalms 38 1,Psalms 41 1
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