APLA - Wait for the Lord (1)
In John 5:1-17 we see the story of a man who was waiting 38 years to be healed when Jesus shows up, stirs his faith and heals him immediately.
Everyone Loves to Wait
We Have to Wait
God Takes His Time
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
51 And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Waiting Is Action
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”