Luke 5:12-13 – “Lord, if you are willing, You can make me clean.” Have you been there? Desperation and dependency overwhelming you? Your only true hope was God! Jesus responded by laying His hands on a highly infectious terminal man and said, “I am willing. Be clean!”

My heart is overflowing with the reality of God’s integrity and presence.    The awareness of His love for us is cascading over me.    Out of that love, I love!   I pray for God’s complete transformation and fullness to become an even greater reality in each of us, bringing us overflowing peace.

As I read in Leviticus and Luke today, God was the theme the Holy Spirit kept impressing me with. God, His nature, character, power, presence, and person.

For some time, I’ve been battling some potentially extreme physical maladies.    Each apparent victory is followed by an additional potential problem.  I recently met with the doctor to review the pathology report from the needle biopsy of the nodule in my thyroid.   It was benign.   Now, I have battled a new event called AFib.

The devil has been trying to instill fear and doubt in our hearts.   I do not ignore reality or the potential of the condition.   But my hope is in God.    In 2005, God miraculously healed me (the surgeon proclaimed it a miracle and stated it was medically impossible).    I knew exactly when it happened, and so did the doctor.    Twenty years later, a potential problem has arisen, and as concerns about that issue dissipated, a new issue surfaced.

This morning, as I read Luke 5:12-13, the presence of the Holy Spirit flooded my room and filled my heart.   The leper said in humility and desperation, “Lord if you are willing, You can make me clean.”   Have you been there?  Desperation and dependency overwhelming you? Your only true hope was God!   Jesus responded by laying His hands on a highly infectious terminal man and said, “I am willing. Be clean!”

With a heart of total dependence, I cried out the words of the leper asking for wholeness, and the presence of God was overwhelming!   It was like 2005 all over again!

We know that God can!   For believers, the truth is that Nothing is impossible with GOD is not difficult to believe.   Our issue, consciously or subconsciously, is whether or not He will do it for us.   Sometimes, we feel like asking, “Lord, are you willing to do it for me? “   That is where our confidence in God’s integrity and character enters the equation.

Hear me carefully: I am not trying to make a law or give a formula, but rather that our confidence and dependence on God must be that of the three Hebrew children before Nebuchadnezzar, “God can, we believe He will, but even if He does not we won’t cast away our confidence.”   God did!

I’m praying for the harvest and that God will restore us, making us new wineskins and pouring in His new wine!     Jesus bore the stripes in His physical body for our physical healing.   I know that healing and rejoice in Him being eternally the same. He was, is, and will be Healer, Savior, and Deliverer.

Today, I shout, “Thank you, Jesus!”    I know whom I have believed and believe He is well capable of handling everything I face!  

Have a great day in Him!