"If thou canst believe"

One of my favorite Bible stories is centered on faith in Jesus Christ. It is the woman with an issue of blood. In Mark 5 it tells us that she had seen many doctors but after twelve years of suffering with this illness not one doctor had been able to heal her.
Christ walked past her and she said, "If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." She reached out and "touched his garment."
Her healing was immediate: "...and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague."
Christ, feeling that power had been used to heal, turned and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" The woman, "fearing and trembling," came forward and told Him what had happened and what she had done.
Christ's response is one that we all desire to hear in one form or another: "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague." (Mark 5:25-34)
This woman's faith, of such simplicity and yet such strength, allowed her to be healed - something that no one and nothing else had been able to accomplish.

Yet, at times our faith is tried. We seek help and see only sorrow. We try to fight and feel only despair and fear. At these times we often cry to the Lord, "Lord, I believe!" (Mark 9:24) We ask why the help is not coming, why the darkness seems so deep, why we can't find our way or even find Him. We have faith; we believe. And yet we cannot see God's hand anywhere.

At these times, let us cry not only, "Lord, I believe," but also, "Help thou mine unbelief."

The Lord desires to bless us. And He will. He desires to answer our prayers. And He will. But it must be in His time and in His way.
As we turn to the Lord in all things, no matter how small or insignificant we may feel the matter is, the Lord will bless us with additional knowledge and understanding. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland states, "When those [fear-filled and doubtful] moments come and issues surface, the resolution of which is not immediately forthcoming, hold fast to what you already know and stand strong until additional knowledge comes." And it will. (Lord, I Believe, General Conference April 2013)
God "will not leave [us] comfortless." (John 14:18) He will be with us as we are worthy of the companionship of the Holy Spirit.
 As we plead with the Lord and say, "...if thou canst do any thing have compassion on [me]," the Lord's response is and will always be, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him [or her] that believeth." (Mark 9:22-24)