People still pray but express disappointment that their prayers are not answered. Are you just talking to God without reaching out to Him, or are you really reaching out to Him through the Power of Jesus, as you should?
As I wrote in my latest book, An
Awesome Quantum God, God answers prayer, not verbally, but by His actions.
For instance, the woman with the issue
of the blood, perhaps hemophilia-C was made whole by the loss of virtue from
Jesus. “For she said within herself, ‘If I may but touch His garment, I shall
be whole” (Mat 9:21). She said nothing aloud, she had prayed silently without
doubting that her prayer would be answered.
Note that she did not pray a lengthy
prayer or even an audible prayer to be heard, but just thought the desired outcome
and she would be made whole.
Something within her was amiss
and she knew that Jesus could do something the doctors could not do. Jesus knew
here thoughts. Jesus knew who had touched Him; He lost Virtue and virtue had
gone toward the woman with such immense faith.
He acted as if He did not know,
but soon discovered the source of that immense faith and the woman’s fountain
of blood dried up. Jesus said, “Somebody has touched Me: for I perceive that Virtue
is gone out of Me. (Luke 8).
Jesus discovered the source of
that lost Virtue. Her faith was like an arrow that pointed Jesus toward the
woman. Her faith had directed the Virtue from Jesus toward her. Her faith had
entangled her with the God Genome in Jesus and the two, for a few moments, had
become one. Jesus had shared some of the Power of God that was in Him to her. That
“virtue,” in the Greek, is “dynamis.” The “Tekton” Jesus, translated “carpenter,”
had shared His inner being — the God within Himself — to her.
Jesus had delivered to the woman
the very Dynamic of God… His wondrous creative Power to be shared with her just
as Yahweh had made Adam whole so long ago. The woman had sensed the
Godhead: the Person of God, the Holy Ghost of God within the Man and the
Almighty Dynamics of God in action. She knew the three states of God and
because she saw and felt what others could not detect, the understanding of how
God works, made it work for her.
She believed that Jesus was God.
He did not say, “I AM,” but shared powerful knowledge to her. He was more than
just another doctor but a highly advanced Technician who knew all things and
had Power over all things, just as John wrote (John 1:1-14).
Do you believe that Jesus created
all things? She did. She prayed a simple prayer silently to God and it was
received because she had unquestionable faith. She did not question Jesus with,
“Can you, or will you make me whole?” She only thought I shall be made
whole! That is the simple and powerful way to pray; with the understanding
that your faith will make you whole, as Jesus responded: “Your faith has made you
whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour” (Mat 9:22).
Jesus audibly said that her faith
had made her whole because He was there in the Person of God.
However, only the Virtue of God
is with us — His Dynamic. Jesus had said to her “Be of good Comfort.” Within
Himself was the “Comforter” that would remain in the world when both Him and
the Holy Ghost had gone to heaven, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give
you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever” (John 14:16).
The “Comforter” (“He”) is another
substance of Jesus, not material and not a phantom, but the Power of
God.
Peter, after Jesus had arisen to His
Ghost that had preceded Him to Heaven, said to Cornelius, “How God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with Power: who went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him”
(Acts 10:38).
Note therein was God in three
substances: Jesus, the Person of God; the Holy Ghost, the phantom of God; and
thirdly; the Power of God who goes about doing good (virtue). Peter identified
the “Godhead” to Cornelius. God was still with them, not in Person nor Spirit,
but in Dynamics — Virtue.
God left His Virtue — His Dynamic
and good action, on Earth to Comfort Christians. When a person, like the bleeding
woman prayed, Jesus answered audibly and with Power, making her whole again. It
is that “Holy Substance” — the Dynamic of God that remains behind to answer our
prayers. Jesus called that Dynamic “He” so in a sense, the Power of God is
another “Person” that is as real as Jesus, but unlike the invisible substance
of God, “He” can be seen by His actions.
Recently, I could have been
killed. While riding my bicycle, out of the blue, I hit a rut and was thrown into
traffic in the middle of the highway. It took only seconds, but in my mind, I
had a great amount of time. I thought about the traffic, my upside-down
position in space, and God in heaven. I asked God, not out loud, but in my mind,
“God, is this it?” referring to my death.
I was silently asking God if He
had no further purpose for me. Shortly, my silent query was answered. The
traffic stopped short of me in both directions, I was injured all over my body,
but my soul was preserved. I remained whole: I had my person, my soul, and my mobility.
I was alive! I quickly arose and felt
immensely relieved. I knew that God would take care of me without even
questioning whether He would or not, and my prayer was answered by the Action
of God who delivered me from peril.
People complain because their
prayers are not answered. Apparently, they are listening for some inner Voice to
respond to their every whim. The woman with the blood issue heard both Voices of
God: the audible Words of Jesus and the Actions of God.
Jesus is no longer here in Person,
but His Dynamic remains here to Comfort (tharso); to be courageous, not
with our own power, but the Power of God who remains with us. That “Power” of God
is as much “God With Us” (Immanuel) as Jesus Himself. In fact, the Virtue of
God is God With Us as much as Jesus is God With Us.
God still speaks to us, not
audibly, but with Actions. He does good things if we have the courage to reach
out to Him as the woman with the hemorrhage. She did not need to touch Jesus,
not even His garment, but when she reached out to God, God responded with the
Power to recreate her.
The woman was unclean. She was
bleeding. The Law for that was isolation so that Jews would not be made dirty: “If
a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put
apart seven days: and whosoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
(Lev 15:19).
The woman with the issue of the
blood, whether it be vaginal hemorrhaging or anything else, would have made
Jesus an unclean Person.
She was courageous but was still Comforted.
She could have contaminated the Godhead by getting so close. Her place was not
near Jesus, but in isolation.
Jesus may have sensed the issue
of the blood and sought out the Person that should have stayed away from Him. Rather
than yelling the Law to her, Jesus did better than the Law.
The Law would have carried her
away, but Jesus just fixed her discomfort. It was easier for him to fix the
breach of the Law than to enforce the Law. That was the Law of Jesus that made
the Law workable.
With the Law, she would have
remained broken, but with new understanding, the Law could be enforced by fixing
the root cause. The woman was not unclean, only her blood, so Jesus fixed the
flow of her blood. He did something rather than let her wait it out. That is
the visible Dynamic of God; the same Dynamic (“The Word”) that made all things
good (John 1).
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