Bo 2025

Be open to God's power and allow God to use you. God is the creator and has given us good commandments and the help of the Holy Spirit. Luke 11:13 NKJV says, "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" Since God is the creator, is there anything too difficult for Him? So, when Rabbi Shaul talked to people about God, he also told them about the power of God. The same God who gave the ancient believers food and water in the desert is also able to help us. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 NKJV says, "And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God." 

We do not believe in God because we need a father figure or believe in God just to be at peace in an uncertain world. Since the inception of time, God has always wanted us to be in relationship with Him and receive His blessings. God placed man in the garden, but man went his own way. God reached out to man and made promises to mankind and to Israel. In this Messianic scripture we see God’s love for those who love Him. Zephaniah 3:17 CJB says, “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” In Ex 15:26 NKJV God tells the people of Israel: “I am the Lord who heals you.” In the scriptures we see God healing and also Yeshua healing people miraculously. At times it says that Yeshua healed all the people there (see Matthew 15:29-31)! Yeshua cared about people. God cares about us. 

Yeshua sent out 12 Rabbis and He was also training others to go out and pray. He trained and sent 70 others out too (see Luke 10:1). Rabbi Shaul was not one of the 12 or 70 and he prayed with power. We are also sent out to pray for others and we too can experience God's power. Mark 16:17-18 NKJV, “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; … they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” A couple of months after my friend Dave came back from doing ministry in India, he told me that he prayed for a blind man and all this stuff began oozing out of the man’s eyes and the blind man was healed instantly. My friend Larry prayed for a teenage boy in Russia whose one leg was shorter than the other. He put his hand on the boy’s leg and while he had his hand on the boy’s leg, the leg grew to the same length as the other leg. Larry is a medical professional! My friend Harold prayed for a young man with the same problem and God healed the young man. Only God can do that. 

In praying for people God will sometimes answer our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes, and sometimes it is no. Sometimes the answer is not yet, but no matter what - God loves us. Ultimately, we will be completely whole in the new heaven and earth. In the meantime, God gave us the Holy Spirit as another helper in life along with the law. John 14:15-17 NKJV says, "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth."