Daily Bread Ministries

When God Listens to the Voice of Man
“All these were continually devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers” (Acts 1:14). The followers of Jesus who prayed together just before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost surely had God’s ear because they loved His Son, Jesus, and were all interceding as one.

Full of Faith for Breakthrough:

And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” (Mark 2:5)

This verse doesn’t say that Jesus saw the faith of the paralytic. Neither does it say that Jesus didn’t see the faith of the paralytic. It says that Jesus saw “their faith.” Sometimes, that’s all it takes. Not one person’s faith but our combined faith. Jesus saw all their faith together.

Then Jesus spoke to the paralytic. But He didn’t say, “Arise and be healed.” Instead, He spoke a deeper word, a revival breakthrough word. He spoke to the man’s heart and soul. Jesus saw their faith, and now He spoke to the paralytic man, saying, “Son, your sins are forgiven”—and the man’s body was healed at the same time. May these words echo through our lives today and heal the sick body of Christ to be raised to wholeness.