YOU TOO CAN BE DELIVERED
Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,
John 5:3, 5-9 NLT.
Love made Jesus Christ show mercy on a man who has been sick for 38 years. Can you imagine, the man became sick even before Jesus was born into this world. He was abandoned beside the pool of Bethesda, nobody to help him until he encountered Jesus Christ who changed his life forever, hallelujah!
The same way Jesus healed and delivered the sick man, he can locate and take care of you, irrespective of what you may be passing through right now. He doesn’t need permission from any man for him to show us love.
There are many applicable insights or lessons to be drawn from this story:
1) No matter how long you may have been in bondage to sin, sickness and oppression, an encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to take care of it
2) Whether you have connection or you are abandoned and all alone, you only need Jesus, not any man.
3) The love of Jesus Christ for us will make him break all the protocols to come to our rescue. Jesus didn’t let the sabbath day deter him from healing the man.
4) The sick man thought he can only be healed if he is able to get into the pool of Bethesda, not knowing that Jesus answers our prayers through any means
5) Even though the man only had faith in the pool of Bethesda and not in Christ Jesus, his lack of faith did not stop Jesus from healing him. The love of God overlooks our inadequacies.
6) All we require in every situation we may find ourselves is the word of God. “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.
Psalms 107:20 NKJV”
7) Jesus asked the man if he wants to be healed, showing us that it’s the will of God that we should be healed. “And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 8:2-3 NKJV.
8) God loves us, and knows what we are passing through, he can single us out from the crowd to reveal his love in us.
9) The sick man will probably be stinking, imagine been sick for that long without anybody caring for you, Jesus reached out to the man despite his terrible condition. So don’t ever think your situation is so horrible that it will repel the Lord Jesus Christ from reaching out to you.
Remember: same question Jesus Christ posed to the disabled man is being asked of you today.
“ Do you want to get well ?”
The power of God to save, deliver, heal and restore you is released when you open your heart to Jesus Christ. And invite Him to do in your life what only the Heavenly Father can do through Jesus Christ!!!
If that’s your desire, then pray this with me:
Dear Lord Jesus, I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. Take complete control of my life and help me to walk in Your footsteps by the power of the Holy Spirit, as I daily experience Your love. Thank you, Lord, for saving me and for answering my prayer, Amen.
Pst. Mike for Pinnacle House Ministries.