Faith Walk / William Carroll
We will be talking about the word of God and how he moved in my life as I stood on his word. His signs and wonders that I have seen during the last forty years praying for my needs and the needs of others. I hope to encourage a new generation of believers to pray the word of God and to believe that He will move on their behalf. God answers prayers!
Faith Walk / William Carroll
Ep 77 Jesus Stops Everything When We Call His Name
Have you ever wondered if Jesus would stop everything just to meet your needs? That's exactly what we explore in today's powerful examination of Matthew 20:29-34.
The story seems simple on the surface – two blind men call out to Jesus from the roadside as He passes through Jericho. But look deeper and you'll discover a profound revelation about how faith operates. These men, despite their physical blindness, recognized something that even the religious elite had missed. They called Him "Son of David," acknowledging His messianic identity and invoking their rights as covenant children.
What strikes me most about this encounter is the reaction of the crowd. Just like today, people tried to silence those desperately seeking Jesus, believing He was too important or too busy. Yet Jesus consistently defied these expectations. He stopped everything to ask a question we all need to answer: "What do you want Me to do for you?"
This question reverberates through time and speaks directly to us today. Many of us suffer not from physical blindness but spiritual blindness – creating our own versions of God that conveniently accommodate our desires rather than transforming our lives. We justify sin by reshaping divine love into something unrecognizable from Scripture. But true encounters with Jesus always begin with acknowledging our blindness and end with following Him wholeheartedly.
The healing these men received wasn't just a random miracle – it was the fulfillment of covenant promises outlined in Deuteronomy 28. As believers today, we have access to an even better covenant through Christ's blood. The question remains: what are you asking Jesus to do in your life today? And when He answers, will you follow Him?
Share this episode with someone struggling to see God's truth clearly. Together, let's have our spiritual vision restored by the compassionate touch of Christ.
Well, welcome to Faith Walsh Podcast, episode number 76. I'm your host, william Carroll, and we've been in Matthew, chapter 20, and I think we're fixing to finish this chapter up and I've just started going wherever the Lord wants me to lead, where he leads me to go, and I've just been doing. Well, today, you know, I've just been doing 10-minute segments and just go until the Lord says, okay, that's enough, let's do something else, but let's open the Lord and let's go to the Lord in prayer. Lord Jesus, open my eyes to see as you see. Open my ears to hear as you hear. Open my heart to feel what you feel. Open my mouth to speak as you speak. And, Lord, let my hands and my feet be your hands and your feet to reach others. Lord, to touch others today. Send someone by my path today that I might share your love, your grace and your mercy with them, in Jesus's name, amen. Well, like I say, we were in 20. And in 20, verse 20, we're going to go on down and we're going to go to Matthew, 20, verse 29.
Speaker 1:Listen, if you need a good Bible app where you can make notes and you can highlight the verses in it and you can share it, and it's got all kinds of dictionaries and strong concordance. It's called ESORT, capital E-S-W-O-R-D. Esort, and I have an iPhone, so I have ESORT LT on my iPhone and I have HD on my pad. But I tell you what it's the best app. You can do searches, you can do scripture searches. You can see how many times a word is used in the Bible and how many times scriptures are used and how many times it's used in a certain way. Anyway, it's a really good app. Let me get on here to Matthew, chapter 20. And we're in verse 29. It says Now, as they went out of Jericho, a great multitude followed him and behold two blind men sitting by the road.
Speaker 1:And when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out and said have mercy on us, o Lord, son of David. The multitude warned the men that they should be quiet, but they cried out all the more, saying have mercy on us, o Lord, son of David. So Jesus stood still, called them and said what do you want me to do for you? They said to him, lord, that our eyes be opened. So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes and immediately their eyes received sight and they followed him. Wow, lord, help us. Thank you Jesus, thank you, thank you Lord.
Speaker 1:So they're going out of Jericho and there's two men and they call on Jesus as a covenant child. They said Lord. They said, they said they. They said, o Lord, son of David, son of David, that's calling them on it as a covenant child. They were. They were men of Israel and they were calling on Jesus as a covenant child, wanting the benefits of the covenant. Okay, they wanted the benefits of the covenant. We're a covenant child. We know healing is in the covenant, we know healing is guaranteed to us and we we want you, lord, we want you to heal our eyes through that covenant.
Speaker 1:Okay, some of you may be saying well, I don't know where this is going. Well, listen, it's simple. If you go back and you read the old testament, you go back to Deuteronomy 28, and you go to and start reading the blessings, the blessings that are in the covenant, walking under the covenant, the blessings and the promises of the covenant. Healing was one of them. Okay, healing was one of them.
Speaker 1:And so their calling on Jesus as a covenant child for healing, because they recognized that he was the Messiah, the religious folks, the Sadducees, pharisees, priests, levites they didn't recognize him as the son of God. They should have been the first ones that recognized him. But you know, if they recognized him, their power would be gone, because he came to do away with the religious people, the religious Pharisees, sadducees, the priests. He came away to do away with the priesthood. He came to make us priests and prophets, each one of us. It's what the word of God says. We're all priests and prophets, all right.
Speaker 1:So Jesus came to do that. These two guys recognize him and they're blind man. They can't see. And the people are saying hey, hush, shut up, don't bother Jesus, he's busy, he's too important for you See, in the people's eyes, jesus was too busy for the blind men, too busy to stop. How many times in the Bible? If you know it, if you know the Bible, you'll know that every time somebody called out to Jesus, that the multitudes, even the disciples, would say hey, hush, hush, leave the master alone, because they, in their heart, jesus was too busy to meet the needs of anyone. Anybody that called on Jesus, he heard and he ministered to it, says there that he says what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1:Listen, that's my question today. What do you want God to do in your life. What do you need God to do in your life? What do you need God to do in your life? What are you able to believe that god can do in your life? Listen, god can change your life today, whether you're in sin, whether you're living in an adulterous relationship, whether you're living in a lgbt relationship, whether you're living in just living out of your lust for pride, for money. God can deliver you from all those things, but you have to believe that he is and he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Are you diligently seeking him? Do you really want a change in your life, or have you just grown?
Speaker 1:Have you just waxed your heart cold and said, well, god don't care if I love this person yeah, I'm married but God don't care if I love this person too, because God is love and God created me. Like that. You see what we do. We try to fit God into our own plans, into what we do, what we want to do, and we try to say, well, god's love and this is love, and I love my husband, but I love my boyfriend. No, god doesn't work like that and that's not true love. You're acting out on lust. You're acting out of the flesh. You need to repent of your sins, and I just picked that. I mean, that just came to me today.
Speaker 1:If you're dealing with that man or woman, you need to address that in your heart. You need to ask God. God's saying what do you want me to do? You need to ask him am I living in sin? And Lord, can you help me to get out of this sin? Lord, I'm blind. You may be really blind and you need a touch from God. Well, I believe and I know he's able to do that, but most of us are just blind in our heart and blinded in our mind by what we think and what we believe instead of what the Word of God says, because we don't yield to the Holy Spirit, because our heart has been seared over because of our sin, and we just say, well, everybody's doing it in God's love, so it must be fine, it must be right.
Speaker 1:God created me like this. Oh, I'm doing, you know, I'm just, I'm just doing what God says to do Love your neighbor. No, he didn't say love your neighbor. He didn't say go down there and love your neighbor if you're married. No, he didn't say that. He didn't say love your neighbor if you're not married and love all your neighbors in a sexual way, sensual way. He said it in a spiritual way. We have to love our neighbors.
Speaker 1:Well, listen, let's just repent. You know we all need to repent, even me. I miss god. So let's just repent and close this thing out. Lord jesus, we just thank you that you are waiting. You are ready to do whatever we have or whatever we can ask for you to do. You have asked the two men what can I do for you? And that question is still for us today. What can you do for us, lord, for me, right now, I ask you to forgive me of my sins. Forgive me when I fail. You Forgive me, father, when I speak out of the flesh, when I walk out in the flesh and not out of the Spirit. In Jesus' name, amen, until next time. God bless.
