Hope came in the form of an angel of a woman who came to us with just a Bible and her faith. She took us on a walk through the New Testament with a stop-off at every scene in which Jesus performed a miraculous healing! Story after story we heard Jesus say,"Do you believe I can do this?"..."Be it done unto you as you have believed"..."Go, your faith has made you well". Then it was my turn to "respond" to the Lord Jesus. My Baby Girl needed a healing!
"Do you believe He can do this?", the woman asked me. "Oh, how I want to believe!", was my answer.
With a joyful bit of a child-like giggle, her voice chirped the words, "You have only to believe!"That precious woman prayed over my Baby Daughter that day and she prayed for me as well, " Lord I pray for the healing of this Mother's broken heart, that she would see You, Jesus, in her Daughter's healing and realize how very much You love her too.". He did.
Two healings were set in motion that day. Those of you who know my family know that my Daughter Sherren is a living testimony of God's love and faithfulness and, yes, His healing power. Her's is a story we have told countless times to God's glory, and every time it touches my heart anew to remember what the Lord has done. But yesterday, Day 34 of recognizing Jesus' presence alive in my life He did it again! He took an experience on my walk with Him...my very 1st experience, no less...and showed me something I never saw before!
Last night our Pastor, teaching from Ephesians, vividly showed us how very much God takes pleasure in showing Himself to us! "Ask God to open your eyes and show Himself to you!", was the challenge Pastor related in a story about a conversation with a man who had yet to come to believing faith in Jesus. Though the man questioned the reality of a "personal God" who"cares"...the challenge caused him to "look" and "watch" for the evidence of God's presence in his life. And...you guessed it! God showed up! Of course! He is not a man that He can lie! "He who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened!" Luke 11:10
That is what happened to me! In that sick-bed nursery in 1978 I took the "challenge" ! I realize that now! I SAW Jesus in all His power and glory at work in my life and circumstances....because "I was looking!! " That "angel" of a lady knew if she could "turn my eyes upon Jesus"...everything would change! EVERYTHING!
Lord I thank You for bringing this lesson home to me so in personally and powerfully! And I thank you, in advance Jesus, for every opportunity you give me to point another to you with the very challenge that brings me to this moment in time! "Looking" for You...to show Yourself alive and among us, by so many "Infallible proofs." (Acts 1:3)