He Is Able — But Do You Know He Is Willing?

I want to ask you a question that I think is more important than most people realize: is this how you see Jesus?

A man walks up to Him — sick, desperate, out of options — and says, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed and dreadfully tormented." And Jesus doesn't hesitate. He doesn't ask about tithing history. He doesn't require a demonstration of worthiness. He just says: "I will come and heal him."

That's it. That fast. That willing.

Now honestly — is that the Jesus you've been praying to? Or somewhere along the way, did religion hand you a different picture?

They saw him as the carpenter — and could not receive from him.

In Mark 6, Jesus goes back to His hometown. He's teaching in the synagogue and people are astonished — they'd heard about the mighty works done by His hands. But then they start talking:

"Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?" So they were offended at Him.

Mark 6:3 (NKJV)

And the result? He could not do any mighty work there. Not would not — could not. He wanted to. He was trying to. But they would not cooperate because they did not see Him correctly.

They acknowledged that mighty works had been done by His hands — and still couldn't receive from Him because they saw Him as the carpenter, not the Christ.

How you see Jesus determines what you can receive from Him. This is not a minor theological point. This is everything.

He didn't come to His hometown to do little stuff. He never went anywhere to do little stuff. He told His disciples to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils. That was His standard. But in Nazareth, because of how they saw Him, all He could do was lay hands on a few with minor ailments. He marveled at their unbelief. Not because He gave up on them — because He wanted so much more for them and they wouldn't receive it.

You don't have to beg, bombard, or bawl to get His attention.

I hear people talk about staying up all night "bombarding the gates of Heaven." I want you to know something: the gate is not locked. You don't have to stop at the gate. You are welcome in the throne room — go ahead in. You are one of the few beings actually allowed to sit in the presence of God. Angels fly around saying holy, holy, holy. Everyone else is standing. But you are His child, and your Father will welcome you with open arms to come sit with Him.

When the centurion came to Jesus with a need, Jesus didn't ask him to prove himself. Didn't ask him to promise an offering. Didn't require a demonstration of worthiness before He'd consider it. He said, "I will come and heal him" — immediately, willingly, without condition.

I am done with the idea that you have to pay for healing. My healing was already bought and paid for by the stripes on the back of my Savior. If someone is telling you to bring an offering before God will heal you — run from that. Freely we have received, freely we give.

And I'll say this clearly: I believe in all-night prayer. I believe in fasting. But I don't do it to move God. I do it to move me. To become more sensitive to who He really is. God doesn't need to change. I do.

"If you are willing" — the question that stops everything.

Now here's where it gets powerful. Go to Mark chapter 1:

Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, "If You are willing, You can make me clean."

Mark 1:40 (NKJV)

This man believed Jesus was able. He had no doubt about the power. But he was not sure Jesus was willing. And that one word — if — was enough to stop everything.

Jesus reached out and touched him. And nothing happened. Not yet. Because the question still hadn't been answered. The man's faith couldn't fully operate while that question was open.

So Jesus spoke: "I am willing. Be cleansed." And the Word says — immediately, as soon as He had spoken — the leprosy left.

Jesus had to answer the question before the miracle could happen. Not because He was withholding. Because the man had to settle in his own heart whether Jesus was willing — and he couldn't receive until he did.

That is still true today. In anything you need from the Lord. You have to settle it. Is He willing? Not just able — willing.

God is able is not enough — you have to know He is willing.

There are a lot of people who believe God is able but aren't sure He's willing. That sounds humble. But it is actually a failure to believe the love of God. Because a God who loves you the way He says He loves you — a God who gave His Son for you before you had anything to offer — is not a God who is reluctant to help.

This is the same trap the people of Nazareth fell into. They acknowledged His power — "such mighty works are performed by His hands" — and still couldn't receive. Ability they believed. Willingness they doubted. And because they doubted His willingness, they limited what He could do.

Think about this. If God wasn't willing to help you but then you missed a few meals and He changed His mind — when was He right? When He refused you, or when He helped you? If He's already perfect, He cannot change. His willingness is not something you earn. It is who He is. He is already convinced to help you. The question is whether you are convinced He is.

Your healing was already purchased — 2,000 years ago.

Here's something I want you to sit with. Two thousand years ago, the Lord Jesus was tied down and brutally struck. Stripes were laid on His back. And when those stripes were finished, so was your healing. It is done. It is established. It is an already-accomplished fact.

You don't have to ask the Father to do something He has already done. If you are asking God to heal you as though He's considering it — as though He hasn't already moved — you are approaching this from the wrong angle. Your Father was in love with you before you were born and has already moved to provide everything you need through the finished work of Jesus.

This is the reason I tell you — the sickness doesn't have to be afraid of your prayers. It has to be afraid of the healing power already inside you through the name of Jesus. You're not trying to get something from a reluctant God. You're enforcing what He already purchased.

The all-important question is not whether God is able or even whether He wants to. The question is whether you see Him — truly see Him — as the One who already said yes.

When you say "Father" — He says "What is it, My child?"

This is the picture I want you to walk away with. When you go to God in prayer — in the name of Jesus — this is what is happening on His end:

"What is it, My child? Yes — of course I'll help."

Not "sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes maybe." The Word says all the promises of God in Christ Jesus are yes, and so be it — amen. When you say amen, you are saying "so be it." And so does He.

He is not hard to reach. He is not sitting back waiting to be convinced. He is not calculating whether you've done enough to qualify. He is already moved, already willing, already convinced. The centurion didn't have to beg. The leper didn't have to perform. Jesus just needed the question settled — are you receiving this?

And that is the question for you today. Not "is God able?" You probably already believe that. The question is: do you believe He is willing? Do you see Him as the One who — the moment you call — says yes?

Because until you settle that, you are still seeing Him as the carpenter. And you will keep walking away from encounters with Him having received far less than He wanted to give.

Feed on these Scriptures. Don't just read them — let them change the way you see Him. Get into the Word on this until you can walk into prayer knowing: He is willing. He already said yes. He is already here.

That is the Jesus who loves you. Grab a hold of Him — and don't let go.

Fight To Win.