Have you done your heart check?

^"35 Late in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. ³⁶ Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”  ³⁷ But Jesus said, “You feed them.”  “With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money^[g] to buy food for all these people!” - Mark 6:35-37

Once as a missionary child I went out with one of the missionaries working with my family, to pray for sick people in the local hospital. This doesn't seem too out of the ordinary, but in Congo (DRC) if you were in a hospital, chances were you were not coming out...so it was not a lovely sanitary place to be in.

We arrived at this one bed and all that was wrong with the woman is that her leg was shorter than the other. It had left her disabled enough that she was crippled and therefore could not perform her duties as a woman, which meant carrying large sacs and basins of food on her head etc., so she had been placed in the hospital...to die.

When Darlene suggested that we pray for her, I was ready to pray the standard prayer and GET GOING. Darlene insisted that we had to pray expecting her healing and proceeded to pray until we started seeing results. Before long, her leg had actually grown, not all the way but it had noticeably grown. (In my kid head though I surmised that she must have been pushing her leg out.) After pointing out the change in her leg, we left and encouraged her to put her faith in God because He would heal her.

As we started to leave the hospital, this woman came RUNNING out of the hospital with tears streaming down her face. There was no cane in sight as she jumped for joy and told us how she would be able to go home now. It was a miracle!

Sometimes what God asks us to do seems impossible, just like when Jesus asked the disciples to feed the crowd. I think I would have the disciples same reaction to Jesus' statement. How could you feed the masses? But He said that not because He expected them to do it on their own but because He wanted them to believe that anything is possible with God. Really our reaction should be, "Let's do it!" with confidence in God's ability to deliver.

Heart Check : Logic does not always fit with what life throws at us. Do you have enough faith to believe that God will turn your life around? Or that He will take care of those personal hurts or desires in your heart that you are too afraid to share with anyone?

If He can feed the masses and heal this woman's leg, if He can free us from sin by dying for us, maybe we all should trust Him a little more. The Father that created does have a plan, we just have to trust Him.