Do you want it, then get it
John 5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. .(*are we waiting for the moving of the spirit today?) 4 For an angel went down at a certain time (Times of revival) 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. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 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?” 7 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.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath. NKJV
· Are we waiting for the moving of the spirit? Are we looking only for the seasons of revival?
· Do you want to get well? What a silly question. Or is it?
· Do you want? Wilt thou
2309 thelo or ethelo in certain tenses; to will, to have in mind, to intend
a) to be resolved or determined, to purpose
b) to desire, to wish
c) to love, to like to do a thing, to be fond of doing
d) to take delight in, to have pleasure
· Was Jesus asking? „Why haven’t you done anything till now?“ Think about it. Let’s assume he was there for 30 years. Some of the people on the front were healed. There were five porches surrounding the pool. Why didn’t he crawl to the edge of the water and wait? I mean you can crawl pretty far in 30 years. Zb.. 3cm a day x 365 days a year = almost 11meters a year. x 30 years = almost 330 meters.
· Has our infirmity become our life? Has it become all we talk about? Has it become our way of getting what we want? Has it become our excuse not to do or become what we are supposed to be? Is our excuse why we do not have to try like others?
· His excuses:
· I have no Man to help me! (I have no money, I have no connections, I have no education, I have no…)
· While I am trying…someone else…
· Jerry you have such wonderful testimonies because you know people in America. I started out in poverty, financial, soulish, spiritually.
Romans 4:17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. 18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22 This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” 23 The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. NIV
· Faith operates when there is no reason to Hope. You see as long as there is a possibility to do it another way, we don’t need hope or faith. But when there was no longer any reason to Hope that it would work and you keep on hoping and believing, that pleases God.
· He considered not his own body, now dead,..his own ability, knowledge….What ever you can do will always cause an Ishmael. God will bless it, but it will be your curse. God will bless your stupidity because he said that he would bless you.
· Neither the deadness of Sarah’s womb. The ability of others around me. Just like the man at the pool waiting to be healed. I have no man… If you are looking to people to be your source, God will not open this door.
· God will let those things that we are trusting in die (in usefulness) until we learn to trust in him. We have the opportunity everyday to give up our trust in other things and trust God.
· Are we trying to help God?
Abraham believed God! being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Then what is my part? What is my responsibility? We must learn to respond to his ability.
God has the ability, we respond.
· Rise, take up thy bed, and walk John 5:8
· Rise : Get up, wake up, get out, get a life,…to arouse, to cause to rise, to arouse from sleep, to awake, to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life, to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc., to cause to appear, to bring before the public
· Take up: airo (ah'-ee-ro);a primary root; to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism [compare 5375] to expiate sin: KJV-- away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
· Walk: 4043 peripateo-to walk:
a) to make one's way, progress; to make due use of opportunities
b) Hebrew for, to live
1) to regulate one's life
2) to conduct oneself
3) to pass one's life