By Andrew Williams – December 24, 2021
On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well. When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.” “What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman? ” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.” “Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.
John 2:1-5 HCSB
Good morning fellow disciples.
In the previous devotions that were entitled ‘Pray with Authority’, we see that the persons had private prayer sessions with God, but when they went out into public they commanded things to happen.
In this verse you might be wondering where is the prayer with authority. Prayer at its root is simply communicating with God, and Jesus is the Son of God and the full embodiment of the God-head in a human body. So when his mother said to him that they did not have wine, and Jesus said to her, ‘my hour has not yet come’, that was the conversation with God.
Now look at the confidence of Jesus’ mother when she spoke to the servants. This is what she said “Do whatever he tells you.” It may not seem like much, but guess what? In obeying Jesus’ mother the servants became part of Jesus’ first public miracle that is recorded in the Bible, the turning of water into wine.
I will say this to you. Obey your pastor, your mother, your father, or a fellow disciple when they tell you to do whatever the Lord tells you. When you do it, you will see God acting in your life and in the lives of others.
Let me reiterate ! When you are in need of an answer from God, and a man or woman of God comes to you, and having heard your concerns and having prayed for you, they say to you, “do whatever God says”, I implore you do it and you will see God acting in your life.
Do you know one of my favorite things to say to persons when they come to me and talk to me about their concerns, about their problems, about their their life changing decisions? After listening to them and giving them advice, the last thing that I usually say is this, “pray about it and whatever answer you get, run with it.”
As we part this morning, I will leave the praying to You. This is my encouragement to you today:
“Pray about it !
Whatever answer you get, Run with it !”