Crazy Faith
Baby Girl,
Humbly, I brought Jesus into the world.
Humbly = in a lowly position or condition; unpretentiously
Unpretentiously = in sincerity, with no attempt to impress by deception or exaggeration
Humbly, I brought Jesus into the world as a baby - helpless and completely dependent on others to care for Him until the time came for His ministry. He was raised by humble, hardworking parents who were not highly educated or highly esteemed people within the community. He had a young, inexperienced mother who was rumored by many to have committed a great sin becoming pregnant before marriage and a carpenter who knew only the work of his hands.
Have you noticed not much was said about Joseph? The only thing you know and the only thing you need to know is that he believed My angel and obeyed Me. That was all I needed from him for My mission to be completed and, Baby, that’s all that I need from you: to believe Me and obey.
One would think the King of the Jews should be born into royalty or power but the position of King of the Jews was, in reality, a lowly place.
Lowly = belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
Jesus was not someone who… okay, Smarty Pants, why don’t you lead this discussion? You’re getting ahead of Me by googling “does the Bible say Jesus was attractive?” What did you find?
Isaiah 53 says, “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.”
There was nothing about Jesus which was done without great intention, including Him having a very common and unimpressive physical appearance.
Jesus and I often shake our heads at the “pretty man” artists have grown to portray Him as over the years. When actors are chosen to “play the part,” they choose much better looking men as though portraying Him as entirely average would be sacrilegious. Honestly, portraying Him as physically attractive is sacrilegious and unbiblical.
The only thing that was beautiful about Him was His heart. He came bearing the LOVE of God and that unearthly LOVE was what initially drew His disciples to leave homes, families, and careers to follow Him. It wasn’t because He looked like anyone special.
The reason Jesus is portrayed artistically as physically attractive has so much more to say about what you as a culture value than what We value. You want to learn from people you admire and you admire people who appear physically attractive, financially stable, and socially acceptable. This is how you define success. This is not My definition.
If you would spend ten minutes with a poor Appalachian woman with a third-grade education, who still heats bath water for her family on a woodburning stove, who trusts Me with her life, you would learn more about faith that honors Me than listening to 95% of mainstream preachers with doctorates in theology that the world loves to learn from.
Baby, I want you to have the faith of that poor Appalachian woman. She can’t prove anything to anyone by pointing to the Bible. She loves her Bible, although, with so little education, she struggles to read it but she trusts that it contains My heart for her and so it is among her most treasured possessions.
She won’t impress you with fancy words when she prays but when she prays, she means it with every last breath in her lungs and she knows that she knows that I hear her and I am working.
Have the faith of that poor Appalachian woman. She has experienced pain, suffering, and loss and yet she has never dared to blame Me. She has never wondered if I would provide for her family - even when there is no food in the pantry. She trusts that, in perfect timing, I will provide and she will be the first to tell you I always have.
To the world, she appears to be simple-minded; ignorant.; to be pitied. We’ve talked, you and I, about pity and you are aware that you pity the wrong things. Don’t you dare pity someone with such great faith.
Stop trying to prove Me to others. Just point to Me in the simple way she does. You are wanting to gather all sorts of Scriptural evidence to take to prove to your friend in need that it is My intention that My children be healed and whole? Take him your story. Tell him what I did for you and ask him to trust Me to do even greater for him.
Tonight, you mentioned that you’re “feeling a crazy faith” for your friend. Who do you think gave you that crazy faith? When you feel that crazy faith, assume I’m wanting to move and I want you to take Me there.
You are My vessel, My vehicle. Where you go, I go. When you stay, I stay. When you speak, I move. We are partners.
I desire to partner with children who know how to obey. When I speak, they move. When I say let’s go, they go. When I say stop, they stop. You are my child when you are adopted. You are My friend and partner when you obey.
Do not be pretentious.
Pretentious = attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc. than is actually possessed
When you talk to your friend, or anyone else who needs healing, do not suggest a “magic formula” that will ensure their healing. Simply tell them this:
Jesus loves you. Ephesians 2:4-7
He died and rose again to offer you freedom in this life and the opportunity to spend eternity with Me. John 3:16-17
During His earthly ministry, Jesus healed every sickness and disease the people had. Matthew 4:23
Scripture says that “ALL” who touched Him were healed. Mark 5:56
The power that enabled Him to heal was the Holy Spirit of God that was in Him and that same Spirit lives in every Christ follower. Romans 8:11
There were so many things Jesus did during His three years of ministry that, if they were individually listed, the world could not contain the books. John 21:25
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8
Each person has the opportunity to claim the healing Jesus offered through faith. Faith is how you “reach out and touch Him.” Mark 11:24
Praying and doubting even a little makes you a double-minded man, unstable in all your ways, and when you doubt, even a little, you can expect to receive nothing. James 1:6-8
Faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains. Matthew 17:20
“Crazy faith” never fails.
LOVE you, Little One. Get some rest.
Daddy
Matthew 5:3-5
