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What moves the Heart of Jesus?
1. A Courageous Approach
Then a man with leprosy came to him and, on his knees, begged him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Mark 1:40 (CSB)
2. A Humble Plea
A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!”
Mark 1:40-41 (NLT)
Therefore, he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Therefore, submit to God…Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:6-10 (CSB)
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
Psalm 51:17 (CSB)
3. A Faith-Filled Request
“If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!”
Mark 1:40-41 (NLT)
Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
Mark 9:23 (CSB)
How does Jesus respond?
1. A Compassionate Heart
Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him.
Mark 1:41 (CSB)
2. A Loving Embrace
Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him.
Mark 1:41 (CSB)
3. A Total Healing
Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
Mark 1:42 (CSB)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB)
The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9 (CSB)