FAITH CAPSULE: Desire not to be taken over by any force.
John 11:1-44
What is it that is having you, denying you not to live life for the glory of God?
In life, HAVING A CHALLENGING SITUATION IS DIFFERENT FROM WHEN CHALLENGING SITUATION IS HAVING over the life of one.
What is the challenging situation that is having over your life?
Unable to control sin can have over the life of one in life.
A mark that is not of God such as sudden or unexpected occurrences can have over the life of a person.
Mark of untimely death had Lazarus with an attempt to take him away permanently. Lazarus was tied up and rolled up in a tomb. Death had Lazarus and nothing could be done until Jesus showed up to release him from sudden and untimely death, by giving thanks to God in John 11:41-43, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
As a believer or non-believer, what is it that is having over you?
Blindness was having over a man on the roadside that caught the attention of Jesus. Luke 18:35-38 records, “Then it happened, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. And hearing a multitude passing by, he asked what it meant. So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. And he cried out, saying, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’” Blindness was having the man by the roadside, and he could go nowhere as desired. Also, he could not see what was going on around him because the blindness had taken him over and he was under the control of blindness.
When lameness is having over the life of one, such will not be able to walk, bound to crawl but not able to run.
In life, one with physical, spiritual, or emotional lameness will be limited to rise, to become a victim of stagnation in this wicked world.
In the journey of life where stagnation persists, delay, and the denial will disrupt getting to the expected end.
Lameness in life can be a position or a condition where no man desires to be.
Lameness will prompt stagnation in life.
Is lameness having you?
Peter and John operated as agents that delivered a lameness man with stagnation.
Peter and John had more to offer him. Bible records, “And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So, he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.” (Acts 3:4-5)
If you will begin to come with attention to God, expecting manifestation for your deliverance before God, your story will be changed. The lame man gave attention to healing when he received healing.
Prayer for today: Ask to be separated from sin that is having itself over you not to live life by His word.