What Jesus Can Do

If you pray for something outside of yourself like more money, or a new job, or a material thing, Jesus is not going to float it down to you. What Jesus can do is put His love in your heart and give you the power and energy to do His will in your life. What Jesus can do is burn holes in your conscience so your wants and needs for money, career, and material things become less important. Jesus can fill you with His love and grace so you can pass on His love and grace to others in your life. Given enough passing on of His power by you to others, other people may be able to help you achieve what you want to achieve but only if He wills other people to help you. Jesus supplies the power. You supply the sweat. Jesus answers prayer according to His will, not according to our will or according to our wants and needs. Jesus answers prayer according to what He wants in our life not according to what we want. You may work to get what you want in life but what you want in life and what you finally get may not be what God wants for you. Most of us go to God wanting Him to fix things in our life. God supplies the love we supply the muscle and action helping us fix things the hard way by working on our issues day by day and week by week. Over time, with patience and faith in His divine will and mercy, our issues, our wants, and our needs all get resolved. Eventually, when we live with Christ in our heart, all our earthly wants, needs, issues, and problems get washed away as we sail home to see Him face to face.