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“It has often thrown him into the fire and into the water to kill him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Mark 9:22, EHV

If! How often do we approach God with an “if?” Sometimes we do so out of humility, “If it be your will.” Yet, how often do we wonder if God can instead of if God will? We are to be mindful of Jesus’ words, it is never an, “If God can?” In fact, He desires us to trust that He will. This is not a “pray it and claim it mentality” but a desire to know that when we truly pray in the will of God, He will do it. Understand this. To pray in the will of God is not to pray for all your wants as if they are needs, but to pray for God’s will to be fulfilled through you and He is completing all the things that you need to accomplish those things. When we pray for healing, we know that God heals. Is this healing always the healing we desire? No, but it is the healing we need. The healing we may pray for may be the healing that would not help us in fulfilling His mission for us. It wasn’t that God was not aware of the afflictions of the young boy and it is the same for us. God knows our issues, He knows our suffering, He knows our sins, and He knows our needs. He desires our prayers to be in conversation with Him and to humble our hearts to seek His will. God can do all things, but we do not command or demand God to do anything. We entrust all things to His mercy and care and prayer knowing that what He wills will be done and His will is our need. In this, we may find His peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.