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I'm thinking today of a verse in Mark chapter

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1, verse 30. It says, Simon's mother -in -law

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was in bed with a fever, and they told Jesus

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about her. I love this verse because it reminds

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me that they told Jesus about her, not that they

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told her about Jesus. We do know that as Jesus

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traveled through Galilee, he was restrained from

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doing as many miracles of healing as he had done

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in other places because he found so little faith

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there. Here we know that the disciples told Jesus

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about her illness. Elsewhere we know that four

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men carried a paralytic to Jesus to be healed.

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The bottom line is this. The concerns of your

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heart need to be lifted up to God. When you are

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praying, you need to think of yourself as entering

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the very throne room of God and tell God about

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the things that concern you, about your loved

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ones who aren't well, about problems in your

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life, etc. And where God wants to bless you with

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incredible miracles and changes of situation,

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He'll do so. Our focus needs to be on coming

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to Jesus with our concerns. In whatever situation

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we're in, as difficult as it may be, We need

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to talk to Jesus. Jesus can do incredible things.

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Has done. I've seen incredible healings. But

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in other cases, I've seen there was no healing.

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Trust Jesus to decide what's right. And then,

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he'll decide what's right for us when we go to

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be with him for eternity. And we'll be glad for

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it.