A Look Into the Life of Drummer

I am currently reading through the book of John, one of the main things that has been striking my heart is my lack of faith for healing vs. the vast amount of faith those being healed had to have. In almost all of the accounts of people being healed it was an act of faith.

Take for instance the centurion, Jesus spoke the words and the made believed that it would be done. Jesus did not go to the mans house and lay hands on the boy for a long period of time crying out for God to raise the boy up. he had no contact with the boy at all. All he had to do was speak it and the centurion just had to act and believe in faith that his son was going to be well by the time he made it back home. That was a huge step of faith for him.

Or take the man who had been blind from birth. Jesus spit in the dirt and then put it his eyes and told him to go and wash it out and he would be healed. Talk about an act of faith, you just got spit mud put in your eyes and that is supposed to make you see. Still that man had a choice either walk away and rub the mud out and think of Jesus as just a crazy dude that just spit in mud or to take a step of faith and go and wash as directed and he would be healed.

While there is an element of intercession that takes place when praying for the healing of someone, sometimes I think that because of the culture that we live in we forget what faith really is. Or even what preparing our own selves as vessels of faith based healing looks like. The bottom line is the only way to increase your faith is to encounter Jesus. That is the one thing that all of these stories have in common. While not all of them were physically touched by the God-man on earth they all encountered Him in some way.

So the only way for us to increase faith is to encounter the Man Christ Jesus.

God, give me an encounter today.