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Do you want to be made well?

4/5/2018

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When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” John 5:6-8 NKJV
 
The world was full of sick lame and demon possessed people when Jesus walked the earth. The world is full of hurting people today!
 
A great multitude of people lay around a pool waiting for an angel to stir up the waters. The first person who entered the pool would be healed. A man who had been paralyzed for thirty-eight years sat by. He was waiting to jump into the pool at the right moment.
 
Jesus walked up and asked the paralyzed man, “Do you want to be made well?” Why would Jesus ask such an obvious question?
 
God was standing before this man but he was still focused on getting into the pool. He was looking for someone to give him a hand even though God was intervening in his life, why? He did not know Jesus!
 
Multitudes are looking for miracles today. Most of them are looking in the wrong places.
 
I had a conversation with a young man who is addicted to drugs. With desperation in his voice he said, “If God is real I want Him to come here and change me right now.” The young man went his way and continued using drugs.
 
This young man has known Jesus since he was a child. He walked away from the love of Christ. He spends his time self-medicating. He is paralyzed by pain and anger. What would Jesus say to him? Perhaps He would ask, “Do you want to be made well?”
 
I was paralyzed by fear pain and anger. Jesus made me well. Sometimes I try jumping back into the pool of self-reliance. There are times when I consider self-medicating. Sometimes Jesus stops me. Sometimes He lets me be overcome by the waters before intervening!
 
Jesus is standing by waiting to heal unsaved people from the paralyzing bondage of unbelief. He wants people to stop self-medicating. Jesus wants people to stop looking for healing in all the wrong places. Jesus wants the multitude to turn to Him!
 
Jesus wants to heal Christians from bondage to legalism. He wants us to turn from self-reliance. Jesus wants us to stop self-medicating. Even the redeemed of the Lord are can fall into the trap of looking for healing in the wrong places!
 
The world is full of needy people. You may be one of them. Do not follow the multitude into the tempestuous waters of self-reliance. Do not self-medicate in the cesspool of sin.
 
Do you want to be made well? Call out to Jesus for healing. He is the Great Physician!
 
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    ​Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!
     
    Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour. Acts 16:16-18 NKJV
     
    The slave girl was speaking the truth. She was possessed by an evil spirit. The evil spirit was drawing people away from Christ! 
     
    This attack came as God’s servants went to prayer. The enemy of our souls attacks when we step out in faith. Satan seeks to distract us. He wants us to focus our attention on things other than Jesus.
     
    The devil perverts the truth. He uses it against us. No one can serve two masters. This girl was speaking the truth about Paul and his companions while practicing witchcraft. When people claim to speak for God we must consider how they live.
     
    The girl followed the disciples for several days before they cast the demon out of her. It is important for us to wait on the Lord before stepping out in faith. The bible tells us Paul was greatly annoyed by this girl. Paul was not fearful. The Lord was with Him! 
     
    Paul and Silas were put in jail. The owners of the slave girl were angry at the loss of income when the demon was cast out of her. While Paul and Silas were in jail they shared the gospel with the jailer. His entire household was saved. 
     
    God uses Satan’s attacks for His glory and our salvation!
                       
    Satan is a real being. He takes people captive to do his will. There really are demons who seek to destroy God’s people and bring destruction to our world.
     
    We have nothing to fear from the devil or his demons when we live according to God’s will. We have nothing to fear from anyone or anything when we step out in faith to serve Jesus! 
     
    Jesus wants us to fear Him and Him alone. He wants us to know His power and authority are unequaled in all of creation.
     
    God wants you share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people in your life. Jesus wants you to walk in great boldness because He is with you everywhere you go!
     
    Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!

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