Around 15 my interest in religion peaked when I did my GCSE Religious Studies exams. After I left school at 16 I started to pray for a miracle from God. I met some youths outside who were in their late teens and they told me that they were going as a group to walk on water. I was surprised that people did this having read about it in the Bible. They believed that they could do it, walk on water. It ignited me to start praying for a miracle from God of my own. God didn’t give me this miracle, but he gave me something else during this time of my life for free which was the gift of the Holy Spirit.
I believe that I can walk on water today only if Jesus wanted me to. I will always remember that story that group of young people told me at 17 that they believed that they could walk on water.
Jesus disciples some of them walked on water and Jesus said that he had given his disciples the power to do so in (Matthew 14 22:28). Some disciples didn’t have the faith to do so and Jesus was disappointed with their lack of faith.
Even if you don’t believe in walking on water, try aiming a bit lower in faith if you need to in your life and that will suffice for you.
(Matthew 14 28:29)
“ And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.”
Quote attributed to St. Teresa of Avila:
‘Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours’.
