“I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew 17:16,18 (NKJV)
We all need stubborn faith—faith that produces the miraculous.
We can find example after example in the Bible of this kind of faith, and each one was included for a reason. Each has something to teach us about faith, and today I’d like to cover an aspect of faith that’s highlighted in Matthew 17: NEVER TAKING NO FOR AN ANSWER.
In Matthew 17:14-20, we find the account of a man who brought his son to Jesus to be healed. The man was desperate. His son was an epileptic whose seizures often caused him to be thrown into the fire or into the water, so the man feared for his son’s life.
The man had witnessed Jesus’ disciples doing miracles, so he brought his son to them to be healed, but they couldn’t set him free. Now, this may have been enough to dissuade some, but this man had stubborn faith. He wouldn’t take no for an answer, and when he brought his son to Jesus, he was healed.
God’s promises are true and if you are a believer, they are yours.
It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve prayed. It doesn’t matter how many times others have prayed for you or laid hands on you. It doesn’t matter how many doctors or experts have said that there’s no hope.
Stubborn faith says, “It’s God’s will that I receive His promises, so I’m not taking no for an answer!”