“One day I
discovered that the disciples asked Jesus a lot of questions when they didn’t
understand things. Sometimes the questions even seemed a little irreverent,
implying that His teaching skills weren’t all that great. They would ask about
His parables and question some of His difficult sayings. Oh, they couched their
words in nice language calling Him ‘Master’ and such, but you know as well as I
that they were really saying, ‘What in the world are you talking about?’
On
(one) occasion Christ was waxing eloquent about the disciples not being
troubled because there were lots of houses where His Father lived. He was going
to go there, build a few more for them, then come back and take them there. And
of course, they knew the way to this place…(see John 14:1-4). About this time
Thomas—thank God for Thomas—said what all of them were thinking: ‘Time out,
Jesus. We don’t have the foggiest idea what You’re talking about. We don’t even
know where You’re going, let alone how to get there.’ I’m sure Christ’s
answer really helped, “I’m the way, You go through Me.” I
don’t think the disciples understood a lot of what Jesus said until later.
As
I thought about this subject of travail, I decided to allow some of the nagging
questions I had buried to go ahead and surface: If travailing intercession really helps get people saved why is it so
hard to do and why does it happen so seldom and why do only a few do it and why
does it have to be so loud and strange and why didn’t You say more about what it
is and how to do it?
That’s lousy English, but it’s a
great question!”
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘What I am
doing you do not understand now, but you will now after this.’ ” (John 13:7 NKJV)
Prayer
Note # 45 THE THOMAS ANOINTING -Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (pgs. 112-113)
John Bunyon is reported to have said: "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart."
The next Prayer Note
June 7h–
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE VS PHYSICAL FACADES
Tonight’s
post:
WHAT’S THE PLAN?
Tomorrow’s
post: THE FINAL STEPS ON THE PATH TO FREEDOM ARE YOURS
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