Sermon - 2019-10-13
Have you ever prayed for something for so long and you wondered if God would hear your prayers? Day in and day out, you lifted up the same pray and hoped that today would be the day that God would answer that prayer? I think for many of us, there is something that we can relate to when we hear those questions. For many of us, when we pray to God, it is because we are in need. Something is outside of our control or strength and we pray that God would be with us. Others of us, we pray every day for others, This story in the gospel today can speak volumes to us. For when we hear this message today, many of us may think that these men were praying for days, weeks, and years for the healing that they were longing for and to be among family and friends once again. Yet when we hear that only one of the ten men return back to Jesus and give thanks to God for healing them of their disease, we may look at that and hear the failure. One in ten were healed and returned to Jesus, we do not k