APRIL 29 - JESUS & DOUBTING THOMAS
READ John 20
After Jesus’s resurrection, He appears to His disciples and reassures Thomas of His Deity.
INSIGHT
God commands us to believe in Him, but He doesn’t require us to believe in Him contrary to the evidence. Thomas needed to be shown that the miracle of Jesus’ resurrection was really true. God provided Thomas with the proof he needed. Jesus appeared to Thomas and said, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands. . . . Do not be unbelieving, but believing” (20:27). Jesus saw what Thomas needed and gave him sufficient evidence to believe. You don’t have to be afraid of sincere doubt. That doubt can be changed. Just examine the evidence of Christ’s work in the New
Testament. Then ask God to help you to believe according to the evidence. Like the father in Mark 9:24, your prayer can be: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
PRAYER
Praise the Lord that He has made the truths of His existence, power, and Righteousness plain for all people to see:
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not considered the foundations of the earth?
God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in
(Isaiah 40:21-22).
Pause for personal praise and thanksgiving. Pray this confession to the Lord:
When I know to do good and do not do it, to me it is sin (Based on James 4:17).
Confess any sins that the Holy Spirit brings to your mind. Now pause to pray this affirmation to the Lord:
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his faithful love toward those who fear him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him
(Psalm 103:11-13).
As you make your requests known to the Lord, pray for:
Offer this closing prayer to the Lord:
Sing a new song to the Lord;
sing his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,
you coasts and islands with your inhabitants
(Isaiah 42:10).
After Jesus’s resurrection, He appears to His disciples and reassures Thomas of His Deity.
INSIGHT
God commands us to believe in Him, but He doesn’t require us to believe in Him contrary to the evidence. Thomas needed to be shown that the miracle of Jesus’ resurrection was really true. God provided Thomas with the proof he needed. Jesus appeared to Thomas and said, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands. . . . Do not be unbelieving, but believing” (20:27). Jesus saw what Thomas needed and gave him sufficient evidence to believe. You don’t have to be afraid of sincere doubt. That doubt can be changed. Just examine the evidence of Christ’s work in the New
Testament. Then ask God to help you to believe according to the evidence. Like the father in Mark 9:24, your prayer can be: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
PRAYER
Praise the Lord that He has made the truths of His existence, power, and Righteousness plain for all people to see:
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not considered the foundations of the earth?
God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in
(Isaiah 40:21-22).
Pause for personal praise and thanksgiving. Pray this confession to the Lord:
When I know to do good and do not do it, to me it is sin (Based on James 4:17).
Confess any sins that the Holy Spirit brings to your mind. Now pause to pray this affirmation to the Lord:
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his faithful love toward those who fear him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him
(Psalm 103:11-13).
As you make your requests known to the Lord, pray for:
- Greater love for the glory of God’s creation
- The work of evangelism in Asia
- Your activities for the day
- Whatever else is on your heart
Offer this closing prayer to the Lord:
Sing a new song to the Lord;
sing his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,
you coasts and islands with your inhabitants
(Isaiah 42:10).
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