Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." (Matthew 7:7)
I'd like to carry-forward today just a little bit on the subject of our limiting God.
I want you to think about this today and ask yourself a question. What might your life be like if you had fully cooperated with God, and had permitted Him to carry out His full purpose in your life? Believe me, my friends, things would be totally different with every one of us today.
The Holy Bible has some sad readings on this subject. For example, in yesterday 's blog, we pointed out that Jesus had gone back to His home town of Nazareth where He had grown into manhood. What an honor it was for that little village to welcome the Son of God-the Messiah-into their streets. But, they did not react as we might think they would to the visit of Christ.
They would not even receive Him, and they wouldn't listen to His message of truth. They rejected Him because He had lived in their town and was the known son of the village carpenter. read (Matthew 13:55,56)
Listen, friends. Jesus wanted to work His miracles in Nazareth just as He had done in Capernaum, but He was not allowed.
His relatives and neighbors lived in Nazareth; some of His boyhood friends were still in town. Maybe even some of them were sick or blind, and they all of them needed to know the Saviour of the world. Jesus longed to touch them, to heal them, to lift their weight of sin and suffering, but He could not. They limited Jesus by their lack of faith. He could not deliver them.
How often we read in the Scriptures the words of Christ, "According to thy faith, be it unto you." And that is the limit of what Jesus can do for any one of us today. There are wonderus things that He wants to do for us now, just as He longed over the people of Nazareth. He has all power to meet every problem and need. He is ready to move in your behalf to smash obstacles out of your path. He holds the Universe in His hand, but He can't do a single thing for you unless you are willing open your heart to let Him in.
So I say to you my son, if your lack that faith and don't know what to do, remember Jesus in (Luke 17:19) "And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole."
And again, Jesus said unto him, "Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee". (Luke 18:4)
He can still heal and deliver in this twenty first century as well as He did in the first? There is no limit to what God can do, when we alow Him to work that miracle in your life.
The Bible says the blessing of God and the Spirit of God is given to those who obey Him. "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find"..."According to thy faith, be it unto you."
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
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