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When He (Jesus) entered the house, the blind men came up to Him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “It shall be done to you according to your faith.”
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Just as the Lord opened the eyes of those who had been blind in today’s scripture those verses today should be an incredible blessing to us. We are being reassured that He is able to do even the most impossible things for us in our time of need—if indeed we believe! With that said, we must not lose sight of the fact that what we believe has to come from what He has said, rather than from what we say. “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” {Rom.10:17 KJV}

A terrible error has traveled like wildfire throughout the church especially in these perilous days: That if we say it—whatever “it” is—then the Lord is obligated to do it. Even Jesus Himself was obligated, limited to only speaking the words the Father told Him to say and speak. {Jn.12:49} We are not allowed to turn that upside-down. As it is written, “Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God…” {1Pt.4:11}

For us, the children of God, our great desire should rightly be to serve Him, to be used by Him for His Glory and to bless others in His name. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” {Eph.2:10} It is certainly allowed, even encouraged, that we should make our requests known to God. {Php.4:6}

Young children, selfish by nature, might ask for candy, sweets pleasing their taste buds. But a mature Christian would hopefully want to, as David said, taste and see that the Lord is good! And as he continued saying, “The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.” {Ps.34:8,10}

For indeed as it is written, ‘the tongue of the righteous is as choice silver.’ {Prov.10:20} That is where our faith will take us, that is what true belief in the Lord and His promises will accomplish in our lives. That is what our prayers, directed by our faith, will fill our lives with—joy unspeakable!

“This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.” (1 John 5:14-15)

HEAR AND OBEY, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY