Day `72, 13-March-2015, let us continue to meditate and pray the Lord's Prayer today.
11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." 13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
"Many people are hurting, many are bound, Psychiatrists realize it, Psychologists realize it, they know these people need to be loosed.
The Church recognizes it, too. The Church knows that some of her people need to be set free, but she uses every kind of tactic possible to snap them out of it: indignation, scolding, harassment. Thus, the Church gets into legalism. In recent years there was the "holier-than-thou" attitude that said, "Well, bless God if you had faith, you wouldn't be in this problem! Look at me!
The enemy will go to any length to keep you from getting into a position where you can receive from God. We could witness in a service others praising God, but we don't know what is really going on in their minds. The only we can be of service for the work of God, to fall in love with the word of God, and minister to those around us with love. It is the love and the compassion Jesus had on this woman made her faith active, we need faith that can be activated by the love and the compassion of Jesus, then we will witness answers to our prayers.
Love has won more people to God and has ministered to more people than all preaching combined. One miracle in the Name of Jesus is more than enough to start a revival in our city than all the preaching in our church services.
You talk about faith, you can quote scriptures, but when you help someone in a practical way that ministers to the person more than any word you could give the person. Jesus showed love and compassion to the woman in need, let us ask God to give us the love for the lost souls, and may that love bring us into the real experience in meeting the needs of those who are crying out for help.