Have you ever hoped and prayed for a miracle?at this time a dear friend of mine needs a miracle,I do pray for him,asking God ,and this is the most important point ,if it is God's will that he would heal him,John 5 v14-15 reads 'This is the confidence we have in approaching God:that if we ask anything in according to his will,he hears us.And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask we know that we have what we asked of him'.William Barclay wrote the following,'We are so apt to think that prayer is asking God for what we want,whereas true prayer is asking God for what He wants'.There is a great deal of wisdom in these words, remember what our Saviour prayed in the garden just before he was betrayed,'My Father if it is possible,may this cup be taken from me',here was Jesus overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death'.and in his humanity he was not just asking that he would he would not have to go through the terrible suffering he was going to experience,no he went on to pray,'Yet not as I will,but as you will' ( Matthew 26 v39)No human being would want to suffer what Jesus suffered,remember he was truly a man and all that means,Paul writes in 2 Cor 13 v 4,'He was crucified in weakness'. Jesus came with the sole purpose of doing the will of God in all his weakness, but he triunphed over his weakness and boldly went on to fulfill his calling to be the Lamb of God ,that taketh away the sins of the world
'Thy will be done'
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