Confidence

July 10, 2017

Devotions:

      “And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.” Luke‬ ‭17:12-14‬ ‭KJV‬‬

      These lepers saw Jesus at a distance and cried out for mercy.  Jesus said to them that they were to go to the priest and show themselves to be declared clean.  Jesus was confident in His word.  He sent them away with no visible sign of healing.  Jesus knew that they were healed without seeing any change in their condition.  He knew that He was the master over sickness and disease, it had to obey Him. Disease had no choice.  Jesus knew who He was, and that He was without sin. 

        We must know who we are and that even though we have sinned, we are without sin because the blood of Jesus has cleansed us from all sin.  When we know these things we will walk in the confidence that Jesus walked in and sickness and disease will bow their knee to the name of Jesus in our mouth.  The only way we can have this confidence in our words is by spending time with God, communing with Him in prayer and in His word.  Choose to believe His word.   

        Jesus sent these lepers away to the priest to be declared clean, not to see if God might do something but because He knew what the Father would do.  The lepers had to respond in faith and receive what Jesus did by obeying what He told them to do.  If they had said, "we cannot do that. They will kill us. Do not you see that we are lepers?" Then they would not gotten healed no matter how much faith Jesus had.