FAITH CAPSULE:He is the only one who can deliver your healing.
John 5:1-9
Bethesda meaning“house of mercy” is where many people were going everyday of worship while receiving their healing and deliverance break through. It is only God that knows how long and how often you have been to your house of mercy, but mercy was not in place to address your situation.You have been in the same situation for years yet you have not received your merciful healing or deliverance. Some have come after you and received their merciful healing or deliverance. Does it displease you as a believer that you go to the same place where others have come and have received breakthrough? If the situation sounds like you, be encouraged because it is not time to be discouraged. It is not time to stop asking, seeking or knocking the gates and the windows of heaven. Jesus commanded in Matthew 7:7, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” We need not mention to Jesus what we want because He sees it all. However, not asking, not seeking, or not knocking on the One we do not see reduces our faith. Be persistent and God will present to you according to His divine agenda for you.
In the documentation of the paralytic man, it is glaring how he remained trapped and not able to receive his healing at the right track of healing. He was at the Gate near a pool which, in Hebrew, is called Bethesda. At Bethesda, meaning the house of mercy yet his mercy healing was not in place because he replaced the healer with man. The Bible describes the case of the paralytic man,“Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 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.”(John 5:5-7)All that Jesus wanted to hear was the paralytic man’s request. The paralytic man was very much focus on getting help from man when he responded to Jesus’ healing offering, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool…” The same place where the paralytic man was lying for many years was the same place where many had been healed. Just like the paralytic man, that same place where you have been visiting is the same place many had been healed. Will you turn to a new approach, that of, “The Lord is my Shepherd?” He is the only one who can deliver your healing. Jesus is the only one who is able to pull you through, not man.
Prayer for today: Cry out to Him and ask why should the enemy say where is your God.