94: What Do You Want?

 It’s A New Season

 

For the first three months of this year, we have journeyed through the series “It’s a New Season”.  This series was meant to uproot, weed out, cut down, and annihilate anything that blocked your fruitful blessings.  Now it’s time for you to believe in yourself—to believe that God did not make any mistake about you; and that what you’ve got is good—no, great—enough to do amazing things in your lifetime, and unto new generations.  You’ve got Jesus’ blood running through your veins, and His Holy Spirit pumping your soul. 

What more can you want?  So Jesus answered and said unto him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Mark 10:51a).  Blind Bartimaeus got what he wanted by equipping himself in three ways.  Equip, in this context, simply means to make ready or to be prepared to move at the moment it’s time for your miracle to come, and to receive it.  First, he prayed, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:47, 48). Secondly, he demonstrated determination.  When those around him told him to be quiet, he cried out all the more for help from the Saviour.  Thirdly, blind Bartimaeus was equipped with ‘un-fractured’ faith, a gift of the spirit that many lack, but what is most needed for you to receive your miracle.

There are so many sermons, speeches, and series written about faith.  But I want to describe to you, as the conclusion to this series, is the 1 Corinthians 12:9 kind of faith—that is the Holy Spirit’s gift to us who want it.  Every believer has expressed faith in Jesus Christ as He who died, resurrected and who is now seated at the right hand of God in the heavenly kingdom.  Faith, here, means to believe and to accept this truth as the backbone of who you are as a Christian.

 

The 1 Corinthians 12:9 gift of faith is the “walking on water” keeping your eyes on Jesus not to fall faith.  It’s what makes some of us appear “crazy” in how we approach the impossible and trust God to make it so!  To make “impossibilities” real in our lives–to change the course of humanity, to open doors of endless possibilities giving our hope a place to flourish and thrive where there seems to be none.  It’s “the best is yet to come” vision in the eyes of the visionary who reaches out to catch their dream and make it come true.  It’s the power of God running through the soul of a believer who dreams big.

 

What’s the size of a mustard seed?  Teeny tiny it is, but when it grows, it spreads out providing shade for days!  That tinsy, winsy little seed enlarges to a gargantuan mustard tree.  And that’s all the amount of this kind of faith you’ve got to have to receive your miracle.  Blind Bartimaeus wanted to see. 

 

“What do you want Jesus to do for you?” Ask (Pray), and it will be given to you.  Seek (with Determination), and you will find. Knock (by Faith), and it will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7). Give your whole life (your whole dream/purpose) to Christ and what you want will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom.  For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you (Luke 6:38).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

A person who is equipped with prayer and determination, and who exercises the spiritual gift of faith, receives all their heart’s desires.  You’ve only just begun to tap into the awesome power of God by walking toward what you want Jesus to do for you in prayer, with determination, and by faith.  Never give up!

 

New Season¹

 

It’s a new season, it’s a new day

A fresh anointing is flowing my way

It’s a season of power and prosperity

It’s a new season coming to me.

 

 

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1. “New Season” lyrics by Israel Houghton, 2001.

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