Where are you today? What are you facing? How is it making you feel? How are you going to respond? As we jump into day 2 of our devotional, let’s join up with Jairus and see what we can learn from and through His experience.
Scripture for Today’s Devotional:
‘A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition. Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?” His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.” While he was still speaking to her, messengers arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. They told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.” ‘
Mark 5:25-35
‘One of the men in the crowd spoke up and said, “Teacher, I brought my son so you could heal him. He is possessed by an evil spirit that won’t let him talk. And whenever this spirit seizes him, it throws him violently to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast out the evil spirit, but they couldn’t do it.” Jesus said to them, “You faithless people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.” So they brought the boy. But when the evil spirit saw Jesus, it threw the child into a violent convulsion, and he fell to the ground, writhing and foaming at the mouth. “How long has this been happening?” Jesus asked the boy’s father. He replied, “Since he was a little boy. The spirit often throws him into the fire or into water, trying to kill him. Have mercy on us and help us, if you can.” “What do you mean, ‘If I can’?” Jesus asked. “Anything is possible if a person believes.” The father instantly cried out, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!” When Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked the evil spirit. “Listen, you spirit that makes this boy unable to hear and speak,” he said. “I command you to come out of this child and never enter him again!” Then the spirit screamed and threw the boy into another violent convulsion and left him. The boy appeared to be dead. A murmur ran through the crowd as people said, “He’s dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and helped him to his feet, and he stood up. ‘
Mark 9:17-27
God’s Word knows what we need. God’s Word speaks the truth in love! God’s Word never returns void!
Let’s be the dads who focus on Jesus, no matter what circumstances we see. Let’s be the dads who put our trust in God rather than our own understanding of the situation. Let’s be the dads who even when something gets in the way, seem to get our plan off track, trust God and His perfect timing and plan. Let’s be the dads who realize that God is big enough to meet all of our needs and we don’t need to hoard or keep Him all to ourselves. Let’s be the dads who press in, press on, and trust God no matter what the world says because we know that until God says He’s done, He’s not done.
Let’s be the dads who believe what Jesus says! Let’s be the dads who believe what Jesus can do! Let’s be the dads who believe that all things are possible with Jesus! Let’s be the dads who believe that nothing is impossible for God! Let’s be the dads who believe even when things don’t look good or people are talking down to us that Jesus can! Let’s be the dads who when it is hard to believe lean in even harder on Jesus!
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Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me: (check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)
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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
“Where is Jesus?“
- Would you keep hoping even if you were delayed in going?
- Would you keep hoping even if someone else caused a delay?
- Would you keep hoping even if there needed to be a pitstop?
- Would you lean on God rather than your own understanding?
- Would you trust that Jesus has it all under control and knows what to do?
- Let’s grab hold of the truth of God and read how today’s devotional speaks to this:
- Do you believe enough to try and touch the hem of Jesus’ robe and be healed?
- Do you realize that you can’t do anything outside of the knowledge of God?
- Do you know that with God all things are possible?
- Do you know that God’s timing is perfect? It is for our good and His glory!
- How would you respond if you were on a mission, a mission where you felt the time was of the essence, and then something happened that caused a delay?
- Jesus had a pit stop, He needed to have an encounter with a woman who had a bleeding problem for 12 years. He needed to have a personal connection, not just a fly-by moment.
- Let’s be the dads who trust God, even if things aren’t going exactly as we had planned!
- Today’s devotional speaks of this encounter and points us back to consider Jairus:
- First is the encounter with the woman:
- “So now we see Jesus, His disciples, Jairus and the crowd all making their way to Jairus’s house. Then something odd happens: Jesus stops. He felt someone touch His clothes. We see in the telling of this same story in Luke 8:45,46, that Jesus immediately said, “Who touched me?” Everyone denied it, and Peter pointed out, “Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.” Jesus knew someone had touched Him seeking healing.
Finally, a woman fell at His feet and said it was her; that she touched Jesus because she had an issue of bleeding for 12 years and longed for healing. Jesus told her that her faith had made her well.“ - Then looking at and reflecting upon Jairus:
- “If I were Jairus, I think my heart would have sunk. Time was of the essence and Jesus was busy identifying who it was that touched Him. I would have become impatient knowing that time was not on my daughter’s side. Then Jairus’ worst fear came true. As Jesus was still talking to the woman, a messenger from Jairus’ home brought word that his daughter had died. The messenger also said, “There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.” Jairus went from the mountain top to the valley in an instant. He had given it everything he had including finding Jesus but it was too late.“
- Let’s be the dads who want to hear it from Jesus before we believe or disbelieve it!
- Let’s be the dads who when we hear it from people give it up and over to Jesus to see what He says about it!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to believe what Jesus says over what the world has to say!
- Let’s be the dads who turn to Jesus in prayer because we know God answers prayer!
- Let’s be the dads who understand that God tends to answer prayer in a few ways: Yes, No, and Wait, I have something better for you.
- Let’s be the dads who are ok with God’s response to our prayer, even when it’s not delivered in the way we would have wanted or in the timing we would have wanted!
- Let’s be the dads who take Jesus at His Word!
- Let’s be the dads who take God at His Word, the Bible, and trust in Him!
- Today’s devotional jumps to another story where we learn that even when we are struggling to believe, we can ask God to help us believe:
- Today’s devotional closes with this thought and challenge:
- “I believe Jesus answers every prayer. It is just that He doesn’t always answer it the way we want Him to or in the timeframe we want Him to. It is in those times that our faith can waiver. We can wonder, where is Jesus? Why is He waiting? Can He really do what we are asking Him to do? We don’t know what Jarius did next but his world had taken a big hit.“
- “Today’s Challenge: Have you ever wondered where Jesus was when you were in a time of need? What were your thoughts?“
- Today’s devotional calls for us to go deeper when it shares:
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