I read of an elderly black woman who answered a younger person’s question, “How can I get God’s help?” With wisdom from years of walking with God, she answered with great faith. She said, “You just have to believe God’s done it and it’s done.”
(The Help where God uses ordinary people to make the impossible possible.)
I’m just an ordinary person that tends to think “I got this.” and work to make things happen. But when there’s a hitch in the plan or the task seems impossible, I ask for God’s help. I beg him to come to my aid much like the father in Mark 9 who sought God for his sick son.
The father struggled in his faith about the seemingly impossible health and healing of his son. He says:
“If you can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”
And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”
Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” (Mark 9:22-24)
The man acknowledged his unbelief. Most of us suffer from the same malady. After asking God for help, we don’t believe he’ll do anything. We’ll keep on trying to do it for him, get someone else to help him, and wait impatiently and anxiously always worrying how he will fix it. We need help
Three Effective Actions to Get God’s Help
- Pray Begin a conversation with God. He asks us to pray without ceasing (1 Thes 5:17). For further teaching on how to pray in a way that makes a difference, see Come Awake.
- Believe God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is the one who parted the Red Sea, caused the blind to see and raised Jesus from the dead. He can do what to us is impossible. We must believe him and what he can do. My issue is that I believe he can, but sometimes I’m not certain he will. I pray, “I believe; help my unbelief” and learn to trust him and believe.
- Obey Not always, but sometimes we have things we are to do to complete the work of God’s helping us. God isn’t going to do everything for us, we must put effort into it’s accomplishment as well. Ours is to follow God’s way and do all he asks us to do, then trust him to help us. “Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this” (Ps 37:5).
Your ability to obtain God’s help is tied to your commitment to following through with these actions. His desire is to help us. We must do our part.
Do you have some impossibility before you? Do you struggle in your belief? How do you seek God’s help? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
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This post is part of the blog series A Spiritual Journey’s Gentle Nudges if you enjoyed it you can check out the others.
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