FAITH CAPSULE: Stagnation not to move forward is an evidence of the agent of paralysis.
John 5:1-17
Bible recorded, “Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.” (John 5:2-4) A ground where healing was taking place a certain paralyzed man with the paralysis of thirty eight years could not get his healing. The certain man was at right track for healing but was trapped at the healing track. The certain man was at Bethesda meaning, ‘House of mercy’ but yet there was no mercy in place for him to come out of his paralysis.
In any area of life where stagnation continues to hold man back from moving forward is an evidence of the agent of paralysis. For thirty eight years, at a breakthrough ground the certain man remained uncertain of breaking through to move forward. The certain man was on the ground of mercy because Bethesda means ‘House of mercy’ but mercy was not in place to address his paralysis. As one that believes in the goodness and mercy of God, does it concern your paralysis? Concerning the certain man, the bible recorded, “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) At the breakthrough ground excuse is the holding force that holds many down. The certain man of paralysis has been held down for thirty eight years by the excuse of no man to put him into the pool.
Are you looking up to man for your help or are you looking up to Jesus for your breakthrough? Among the secret of breaking out of stagnation and not be a paralysis is to know and understand lifting up voice to God. The Psalmist stated, “My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.” It is time to stop directing voice to man but to direct voice to God and look up to God. Jesus is the only one who is able to pull man through, not man.
Prayer for today: Ask for mercy from the hand of God to bring you out of stagnation.