Pressing In for the More

I was recently ministering at a church where several people got miraculously healed but some did not. There was a young boy with a deaf left ear who was so desperate for healing and was confused at why others were getting touched but not him. I did my best to encourage him that we will not give up for his miracle and we will never stop believing in the goodness of God. We will persevere.

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

(Copyright Front Line Art Publishing, 1996)

God is good- all the time. That is the foundational, bedrock principle for my life. Although I don't fully comprehend His goodness, the revelation is growing. I have learned that what this really means is there is never a time in our lives when God is not good. I must hold on to the Father's goodness especially in times of seeming "failure" such as when we prayed for the boy with the deaf ear. I know it is not a matter of begging God because His will is for all to be healed. We are called to persevere, seeking the more in the secret place and taking risk in public. I believe Jesus that we will do the "even greater things".

I am encouraged by the lives of people from the past who understood the importance of perseverance.

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

"It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth." English Theologian Thomas Fuller

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail". Ralph Waldo Emerson

May we press in for the more, because there is always more. May we persevere for the more because there is so much need around us. May we seek the more because God is always good!

"Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up." II Corinthians 4:1