
Author
Dr. Roberto Miranda
Summary: Life can seem like a dark cave with obstacles blocking us from our desires and hopes. But when the power of God is in our lives, nothing can withhold the blessing. We must remove the stone of disbelief, sin, low self-esteem, negativity, and pessimism that stands between us and God's miracle. Faith is the connecting thread of the power of God, and we must ask the Lord to make us people of faith. We can increase our faith by reading the Word of God, being in relationship with people of faith, praying for miracles, and confessing our faith. If we believe in the power of God, everything is possible. God is looking for men and women full of faith to do extraordinary things through them.
The writer Juan paints a very gloomy scene for us here, he says: the Lord arrives at the tomb; It was a dark cave maybe damp, cold and on top of that there was a stone placed at the entrance. How many times do our problems seem like a cave where there are scorpions and venous spiders, and it is not only a cave but there is a stone that closes it, no? For double danger and difficulty, and inside are our hopes, there are our desires for something that we want but there are obstacles after obstacles that prevent us from entering the miracle that we want and need for our life.
How many times does life seem totally difficult, closed tightly shut like the walls of Jericho? There seems to be no possibility of a solution. Ah but the difference is that Christ is on the stage. The Son of God was there. That cave, that rotund tomb had no power to hold what God wanted to come out of it. When the power of God is in our life there is nothing that can withhold the blessing. What is God's to us no one can take away from us no matter how difficult the circumstances are.
Then the Lord says: remove the stone. What obstacles are there that prevent the Word of God from penetrating that dark place in our lives? What is the stone that has to be removed? Disbelief, sin, low self-esteem, negativity in us and pessimism, someone who is always telling us: no God does not love you, He is always busy, your faith is a crazy faith, are you a fanatic?
There are stones that stand between us and God's miracle and that stone has to be removed first so that the power of God can manifest in our lives. We have to ask the Lord: give me understanding, what things are in my life that are preventing Your total Glory and Your good intentions for my life from fully manifesting?
So when the Lord says: remove the stone, Martha the practical woman, right? That is the part that sometimes kills us, it is unbelief; think: no, this is not possible, something similar has never been done, there is no money, we are always thinking about some obstacle, a lot of fabric to cut there. But the Lord turns then I believe that with a little impatience almost towards Marta, He says: Marta, how long are you going to stop doubting Me? Have I not already told you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? What is it that makes the glory of God manifest in our lives, what is the connecting thread of the power of God? It is faith, it is believing, believing.
How difficult it is to get to that point of believing, sometimes we have to ask the Lord even for faith, even to believe Him we have to ask the Lord to do a work in our lives. We have to ask him every day: Lord make me a man, make me a woman of faith. May I believe in Your Word, may I taste Your miracles before they happen. Because it says without faith it is impossible to please God.
The Bible says that: "The just shall live by his faith." The apostle James says that if we ask God not to doubt because he who doubts is like the waves of the sea that are carried by the wind from one place to another, he says do not think that this is how you will receive anything from the Lord. Faith is the currency that we use to buy and sell from God, and we have to ask the Lord every day: help me to be a person of faith.
That is why it is necessary to read the Word of God, because by reading the Word and seeing these miracles our faith increases because the Word of God is powerful to activate faith in us. We have to be in relationship and in constant conversation with people of faith who help us and infect us with their faith. We have to pray for God to perform miracles in our lives and by seeing those miracles our faith increases. We have to confess with our mouth: faith even if our heart doubts many times. All these things are increasing and making our faith grow which then makes us conductors of the power and electricity of God that is life for us.
Then the Lord says: Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the Glory of God? My brothers, before finishing this wonderful program, this series of programs that we have had, we are going to ask the Lord to make us people of faith and that we understand that he should look: for those who believe, everything is possible. If you believe in the power of God there is nothing that can stop you. The Bible is a long recount, time after time, episode after episode, character after character of this profound truth of God, that if we believe the Power, the Glory of God will manifest in our lives.
God is burning with the desire to find men and women who believe Him and have a perfect heart for Him, who live lives risking everything for Him and who pay the price to then make good on His Promises and do extraordinary things through they.
The only thing God needs is a man, a woman full of faith. He does not care if you are educated, rich or poor, ignorant, if you have faith God can use you. We are going to ask the Lord to make us people of faith, that is the basis, the very foundation of the Christian life. With a heart that has faith and a powerful Christ is a nuclear combination that breaks, explodes the worlds and the most impenetrable caves in the world. For those who believe everything is possible. We are going to live like this.
God bless you, I send you a loving hug through these internet waves and declare the Grace of God over your life and the Power of the Resurrection.