Expect the Unexpected

Introduction

I want to talk today about healing and wholeness. Many of us have had experiences that have left us broken and I need of healing or repair. It is important for us to understand that healing is the children’s bread.

There are times when we become complacent in our way.

Complacent - showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements.

We cannot afford to be complacent. When God shows up in my life I want everything he has for me.

These impotent folk (blind, halt and withered).

This was an unusal occasion of healing just like many others

Naaman was healed by washing in the Jordan River (a dirty river).

One was healed by touching the bones of Elisha. Elisha died with the power of God so much so that it was still in his bones after death.

Some were healed when the shadow of Peter fell upon them in Acts.

Some were healed when Paul’s handkerchiefs were laid upon them.

When you find yourself becoming complacent you must:

Point 1: Remove all excuses

When Jesus shows up, the living water has arrived, the bread of life has arrived, the strength of God has arrived. His excuse is an indication of not only physical paralyse but mental paralyse as well. It is a bad situation when you are in a situation so long that you cannot see your way out.

What are you waiting for?

Some wait for:

convenient season, dreams or visions, signs and wonders, to be compelled, revival, particular feelings or some celebrity.

Why wait when Jesus is here right now.

Point 2: Rise (pick up what has been carrying you)

The man bed was a mat that he laid on waiting on his healing.

What is your mat? What are you sitting on waiting for a deliverance to take place in your life? Are you on a bed of insecurties?

Point 3: Walk in wholeness (nothing missing and nothing broken)

Immediately, this man was healed.

The thing that just seemed impossible was made possible when the man responded in faith to God.