Imagine The Possibilities

"When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them." Luke 4:40

Imagine what the world could be like if followers of Jesus could just grab hold of the faith that Jesus had. The disciples and their companions found it, and this was their story as well.

"Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them were healed." Acts 5:16

Seriously, just imagine what it would be like to really recognize what it means to ask Jesus into your heart. We make such a big deal about the actual event, the moment someone asks Jesus to come into their heart and lives, and well we should make a big deal about it, but I think we don't realize that when we ask Jesus to come into our hearts, we're actually asking Him to move in. We're asking that the worldly spirit of ourselves be removed to make room for Jesus. When I asked Jesus into my heart, it wasn't just saying a prayer, it was time for a remodeling on the inside. Erika, the spirit of fleshly and worldly desires needed to be evicted so that Jesus could move in. Could physically and spiritually move in. And that means that when I walk around today, and do my daily business, I am not just Erika. I am Jesus on the inside, with Erika on the outside. And maybe one day, people will be able to see the Jesus from the outside too.

Imagine what it would be like to see people set free from their addictions in an instant- a lifetime of torment gone in just a second, because someone had the faith and the compassion to care. Imagine... imagine a couple physically unable to have children, imagine their joy when they find that God has created a whole new reproductive system for them and they find themselves pregnant. Imagine an elderly woman, plagued with arthritis for years and years, suddenly finding herself standing straight up without pain, dancing with joy before the Lord. Imagine a young man, injured in a car crash as a teenager, unable to ever walk again, rising from his wheelchair only to fall to his knees again in thanksgiving.

It is a beautiful thing to imagine all that isn't it. It's time to stop imagining and start doing! It's time to dig deep and figure out how to activate these gifts that Jesus had to heal, because Jesus is IN us. Jesus is a part of me, and if Jesus could do miracles, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, it stands to reason that this Erika shell walking around with Jesus on the inside should be able to do the same things.

"Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," Matthew 28:18-19