When I was a young Christian, I attended a seminar on what we must do to “work the works of God.” I was told that we had to pray more, fast more, know our enemy and so on. I came away from the seminar confused. Then one day, I found the same question in the Bible. But the answer was very different!
In the Gospel of John, we find Jesus being asked the same question by the multitude who had been awed by His miracles—“What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” The people had seen Jesus healing the sick, and feeding 5,000 men with only five loaves and two fish.
Notice how Jesus answered them: “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” My friend, the greatest doing is believing—believing in Jesus the sent one, who has done it all for you at the cross!
If you are asking, “What must I do to receive my healing?” the answer is this: Believe in Jesus, who “Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17). We have seen members of our church delivered from life-threatening conditions such as cancer and kidney failure. They had simply believed that Jesus bore their diseases on His own body. There was nothing for them to do, except to believe.
When the jailer asked Paul and Silas, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:30–31). The greatest miracle in your life happens not by you working and trying to save yourself, but by you simply believing in Jesus who died to save you from eternal damnation and to give you eternal life. Why then, should the lesser miracles of healing or financial breakthroughs be any different?
Beloved, what is the miracle you need today? There is nothing left for you to do, but everything for you to believe, because Jesus has done it all for you!
"I'M HERE TO TELL YOU" EDITOR'S NOTE
Is it true that Jesus has done it all, already for you? Surely, people say, there must be something I must do to help God. God doesn't need your help. If God needed assistance, He has a multitude of angels at His beckon call. What God wants from us is trust. God wants us to trust Him, believe that He will do what He says. God wants us to rely upon Him and not our selves. God wants us to look to His Son for everything. God wants us to trust that His Son's work at the cross was enough, with nothing to be added. God wants us to live the new life because He wants us to know that when Jesus rose from the dead, so did we - into new life. God wants us to realize that we are a new creation, made for Him. God wants us to get out of our own way and let Him be God. When you put your trust in the finished work of the Son that He sent, you are done. Sealed for eternity. God wants you to just believe. Do you want to know what God wants? You now know. Today, pray to God to have you see that all He wants from you, in return for all He has done for you, is to just believe.
