The photo is unique. It's taken from the The Shroud of Turin topigraphical mapping. A regular photograph can't be mapped, but the unique shading of the Shroud adds a new dimension a regular photo does not have. The Shroud of Turin also contains radioactivity not explainable. It's worth remembering, the early art of Jesus - owned by the Vatican - before the 4th century, all show Jesus to have a face that is very similar to this, long and narrow.Mark 12:18-27
18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 19 "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. 21 The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. 22 In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. 23 At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"
24 Jesus replied, "Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? 25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"
The subject came up about answered prayer. Some people call it Name it and Claim it. Reminds you of what was said about Abraham. "He believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness." Abraham didn't always want what God wanted. There's a chapter when Abraham laughs at the notion God is still going to provide him a son with Sarah and he tries to persuade God to bless Ishmael instead. God, amazingly, did His own thing and provided. God tends to do that.
God is pleased, even today, with Abraham's faith. Abraham did not claim the victory of God's promise to have collected God's promised blessing.
Lets see if people in the Bible used Name it and Claim it as a key to answered prayer:
In Acts 3, the man at the gate asking for alms was healed, and told to rise up and walk. He didn't even ask for healing, but he expected people going into the temple to help him. He was asking in his soul and the Spirit heard and was willing. Didn't even ask.
In Luke 12, God says consider the lilies of the feild, because He provides. The chapter goes on to say it gives God great pleasure to provide. God gives with great pleasure.
The Greek woman, born in Syrian Phoenicia, was asking Jesus to heal her daughter, in Mark 7. Jesus wasn't interested until the woman asked for scraps from the table of God. Jesus is touched by her willingness to accept her unworthiness and to ask God, and Jesus heals her daughter.
Later in Mark 7, Jesus takes the man who is deaf and mute and performs a miracle for him privately; and in a way the man understands before his hearing is restored. It isn't a miracle for display, but a communication between just a man and his God. God's glory was for one individual and carried out in private. That's how much one man means to God.
The lady with the flow of blood reached out and deliberately touched the fringe of Jesus' garment. That is Name it and Claim it. The mercy of Jesus. Paul was wise and he knew he'd asked God 3 times to remove the thorn from his flesh, but Paul recognized it was time to rest in God's hands with that prayer. But consider the story of Jacob. Name it and Claim it? Founding starter - Jacob - wrestling with God - received permanent pain in his... hip. If we weren't discussing the maker, creator and King of all, I'd think God might have been reaching for his backside and missed.
Just as only one is judged to be good, only one prayer can be considered to be perfect. It is Jesus. Let Your Will be done, Father.
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