** "Ye have not, because ye ask not" (Jas. 4:2). {This is a great limiting factor for many people} **

Date:   8/26/2018 3:39:26 PM ( 6 y ago)

Learn to please God not people!


Mark 10:48 "And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me."

MARK 10:43-48 (NKJV)

43 Yet it shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

44 And whoever of you desires to be first shall be a slave of all.

45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

This is where many fail to realize that we are not here to get but to serve others. If people were to be more helpful and loved their neighbors - things could look much better. Self-centeredness and greed are the cause of most of the world's problems today!

The devil will always have someone available to tell us why we shouldn't expect to get results when petitioning God. Most people would rather stay with the crowd and not do anything to draw attention to themselves even if that means not getting their needs met. They will try to make you conform as well. If this man would have listened to the crowd, he would not have received his healing.

"Ye have not, because ye ask not" (Jas. 4:2).

{This is a great limiting factor for many people}


This blind man is a good example of an active kind of faith. He was not passive in his approach toward healing. He boldly cried out to Jesus for mercy. When the crowd ridiculed him and told him to be quiet, he cried out even louder for mercy.


Many people believe that God can perform the miracle they need but relatively few are willing to actively pursue it until they get results. They are afraid of what others will think of them. This man had his attention focused only on Jesus. Nothing else mattered and that is why he got healed.


An integral part of faith is seeking God only with your whole heart. If we are concerned about what people think so that we can gain their approval, we will never take a stand in faith for anything that we might be criticized for.

This one thing has probably stopped as many people from receiving from God as anything else. You cannot be a "people-pleaser" and please God at the same time. Satan uses persecutions to steal away God's Word and thereby stop our faith.


To see faith work, we must say with Paul,

"let God be true, but every man a liar"
(Rom. 3:4).


** from a post on AWMI.net

 

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