The Interupted Gospel

Luke 8:40–56 NLT

On the other side of the lake the crowds welcomed Jesus, because they had been waiting for him. Then a man named Jairus, a leader of the local synagogue, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come home with him. His only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus went with him, he was surrounded by the crowds. A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.” When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been immediately healed. “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” While he was still speaking to her, a messenger arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. He told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.” But when Jesus heard what had happened, he said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith, and she will be healed.” When they arrived at the house, Jesus wouldn’t let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the little girl’s father and mother. The house was filled with people weeping and wailing, but he said, “Stop the weeping! She isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.” But the crowd laughed at him because they all knew she had died. Then Jesus took her by the hand and said in a loud voice, “My child, get up!” And at that moment her life returned, and she immediately stood up! Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat. Her parents were overwhelmed, but Jesus insisted that they not tell anyone what had happened.

Evangelism and moving by the Spirit through interruption.

When you are led by the Spirit even “interruptions” are course for allowing God’s ways to let the Spirit to move when you are sensitive the Spirit and less concerned with being interrupted.

What is an interruption? What is being interrupted?

If God is in control, if you are being led by the Spirit, then an interruption in the natural does not interrupt the flow of the ways of God at work through your life.

The natural interruptions provide setups for the Holy Spirit to move and meet people’s needs in an uncommon way, if we as humans can keep from getting aggravated about the interruptions.

We must train our minds to be more accustomed to God’s ways than being set in our ways.

Romans 12:1-5

We can miss divine set ups with the people who God sits in our path when we disengage from God’s ways and choose our schedule or our routine our way of doing things instead of choosing the divine interruption.

Choose to operate in God’s ways while being interrupted from your normal because this may be God breaking in on you and you may be missing it.

When we Love God first then love people it puts our ability to be interrupted 3rd. Its puts our schedule and ways prioritized beneath His ways.

We need discernment to hear Him. Discernment to know His ways more than we know our ways.

What do you do at 5pm every day? What does He want you to do at 5pm every day? What if He interrupts what you do at 5pm one day and then asks you to not do what you’ve been doing at 5pm for the last 5 years would you let him intrude on your space?

If it was your space it was never His in the first place.

We must learn His ways.