The Oh, you're going to do you do.

Oh, do you do. Jesus encourages us as his followers to pray with boldness. He says whatever you ask

for in prayer, believe that you've received it and it will be yours.

So does this mean Jesus is like a wish-granting genie?

Of course not.

And today on Truth for Life, Alistirbegg shows us how to rightly understand Jesus'

words in Mark Chapter 11.

We're looking today at verses 23 through 25.

Do you understand why it's so important that in seeking to be true to the Bible,

we don't try to be truer to the Bible than the Bible is to itself or

truer to the Bible than is Christ to the scriptures. It is important that when we

read the Bible we say what is the language, what is the genre in which this is being expressed.

And as I suggested to you, this is a figurative proverbial kind of statement akin to a camel going through the eye of a needle.

What we're actually doing is we're saying to understand this allows us then to have the scriptures say exactly what they're saying.

And not in any way to detract from the audacious way in which Jesus says to his followers,

God wants to do things for you that are incredible and that are apparently impossible. That's what he's saying.

We've just come from the temple, it's defunct. We've come from the place that used to be the house of prayer.

There's no prayer going on.

It's been turned into a market.

Now you are my men.

You've seen what has happened to this tree.

That is a model of what you will do one day, when you take me at my word, and when you do what God designs for you.

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