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“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.”
Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said,
“I do will it. Be made clean.”
If we believe in the power of Jesus to touch and heal our circumstances we will regularly invite him to do so. We can ask. We need not presume. We set ourselves up from disappointment when we try to make the change happen by simply believing harder or better. It is rather that all such requests must stem from encounter with Jesus and from the genuine belief that his presence inspires in us. He wants to convince us that he loves us, that he is the manifestation of the Father's love for us. He wants to convince us of this in our daily lives so that we become more able to live our lives based on the hope we have for eternal life.
And this is the testimony:
God gave us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.
Our belief may not be as strong as that of the man full of leprosy. Perhaps it is the first place we should ask Jesus to heal. Let us come before him. If he doesn't immediately inspire the confidence that the leper felt we can expose that truth to him and ask him to heal us. It is he himself that places the longing in our heart to believe more firmly and therefore to know him more.
We cry out "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (see Mark 9:24).
Jesus will certainly reply, “I do will it.”
Since it is his own will to do so Jesus will certainly give us the supernatural gift of faith that can only come from the Holy Spirit. This is the faith, the belief in the testimony of God, that conquers the world.
Who indeed is the victor over the world
but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
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