Catalyst Track: Find Your Miracle // Day Two

This week’s track comes from excerpts from Kerry and Chris Shook’s book, Find Your Miracle.

 

Bartimaeus had no idea when he sat down in his everyday spot as the sun was coming up that he had positioned himself in the perfect place to meet the Mir­acle Maker as He passed through Jericho.

 

Much more important, however, Bar­timaeus had positioned his heart to receive the miracle that he needed most. In crying out “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Bartimaeus humbly re­vealed his desperation for Jesus and powerfully declared his honor of Jesus.

 

In this 3-day track from the Catalyst App, the Shooks guide us through the miraculous healing of blind Bartimaeous to help us understand how to posture ourselves before Jesus in our own times of need.

 

Do you need a miracle? Maybe it’s healing. Maybe it’s a need for change in your job, your ministry, your family. Maybe you don’t need a miracle, but someone you know, love or lead does.

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DAY 2: Believing in the One Who Can Heal

 

Jesus’s words grab my heart: “Go, your faith has healed you.” Bartimaeus’s faith in Christ activated the miracle. I certainly don’t understand how my faith and God’s miracles come together, but I know that my faith is essential to put­ting me in position to receive the miracle.

 

Over and over Jesus would tell people, “Be it done to you according to your faith.”

 

Jesus was saying that when I put my faith in Him, He takes me to the place of miracles. By the way, Jesus also made it clear that it’s not the amount of faith that makes the difference when He said that I can have faith as small as a mus­tard seed and move mountains (see Matthew 17:20).

 

Jesus told us that it’s not the amount of our faith that matters; it’s the object of our faith that makes all the difference.

 

Your faith is only as good as the One you put your faith in. Don’t put your faith in a miracle. Put your faith in Jesus, who can work miracles. Bartimaeus took the little bit of faith he had and placed it all on Jesus to work a miracle in his life.