What Do You Want Him to Do for You? 

   “Jesus said to him in reply, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’  The blind man replied to him, ‘Master, I want to see.’” (Mark 10: 51) 

   Blindness can be understood to be physical or spiritual.  While Bartimaeus asked for and was given his sight, it is also apparent that he then saw Jesus as the Messiah for scripture says, “Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.”  In Jesus’ time His teachings were often known as “the way”.

   When we come to Jesus, we must ask ourselves the question, what do we want Him to do for us?  Do we want to heal divisions within our own family?  Is a better understanding of God’s will for us what we most desire?  We each have many things that we may ask God to do for us and if we ask in sincerity and faith they may be given to us.

   Still, I believe there are two things that must always be kept in mind when we pray.  First, we must ask for God’s will, not ours.  We are sinful and do not always know what is best for us.  For this reason we often pray for something that is not in God’s will.  He will always answer our prayer, but the answer may be “no”, or “not yet”.  God will not give us something that may be harmful to us.  “Which of you would hand his son a stone when he asked for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish?” (Matt 7: 9 – 10).  Neither will God give us what is not good.

   The second thing we must have when we ask is faith that He will answer.  If we don’t sincerely believe that God will answer our prayers then our prayers are not worthy of Him.

   When we seek His will in our prayers and have faith that He will answer we can be assured that, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” (Matt 7: 7). 

We need Your help Lord.

We ask that Your will be done.

In faith we know that You will answer.

We place all our trust and hope in You 

Amen