Hey you, what do you think or believe when you look at this topic?
please share with us these thoughts.
I’m talking about people in the modern day.
Does God favor some believers over other believers?
If you believe so, why? How come?
Are there scriptures that can prove otherwise?
God cannot be just and play favorites at the same time. The proof? God is just. It is His own self-description of Himself. He also tells us He is no respecter of persons. Therefore if God plays favorites He is a hypocrite and does not tell the truth. Therefore He is sinful if He does.
God may appear to play favorites to some people. Jesus told us at the time He healed the two blind men that their request for healing depended upon their faith. He healed them therefore they truly believed, had faith in, Jesus' ability to heal. Do all people have that kind of faith, or do many modern people entertain doubts as to God's willingness or ability to work miracles? If a person does that can they really expect to see miracles since Jesus has told us that He will answer our prayers according to the faith we have in Him?
The same goes for many other types of unbelief. How often do we pray selfish prayers by just looking to benefit ourselves? Do we really believe that God is to reward our selfishness? And how many people ask God to do things that we doubt Him doing ourselves? If we doubt God will really do things that we ask of Him can we really expect Him to answer our prayers? Jesus gave us the answer to that, as it will be done to us according to our faith.
Remember the story of Jesus coming down the mountain on the morning of the day after He was transfigured? Jesus' disciples had tried to cast a devil out of a boy but had failed. The boy's father immediately runs to Jesus and asks
if He could heal his son. Jesus' reply? If thou canst believe all things are possible to him that believeth. Do you remember the father's reply? Lord I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. And Jesus threw the demon out of the boy. The father confessed his doubt and asked Jesus to heal his unbelief. So Jesus performed both miracles at the same time. He healed both the father and the son of their spiritual maladies.
Are we looking for God to give us blessings that we want but will work against us in the long run? Should God bow to our will, or should He do what is for our ultimate good? There are many factors going into whether we will see what we think is a positive answer to prayer. But Jesus loves us and does what is best for us even if we think He does not answer our prayer.
One prayer I can always see being answered in a positive way is if we ask Him to reveal Himself to us so that we might build our faith in Him. But don't be surprised if things seem to go wrong after that. Why? Because faith is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised to be strengthened. And every time we exercise faith Jesus will draw nearer to us and we will get to know and understand Him better.
Study Jesus' speech to His disciples on the way to the garden of Gethsemane. He speaks of the relationship of branches of the vine to the vine and how that relationship speaks to our connection to Jesus and fruit bearing in our lives.
