08/14 John 5:7-9
“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me.” 8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk!” 9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up the mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath day.
QUESTION
Jesus wanted to know if the man wanted a miracle. He already knew the situation. He didn’t need the man’s excuses. He simply wanted to know if the man wanted to be healed. Jesus responded with healing in spite of the man’s alibi. Don’t trip your self up simply listen to Jesus and respond to what He asks. Jesus is Lord, He is here and we need Him in our heart.
Author - Clay Corvin
08/13 John 5:1-6
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. 3 Crowds of sick people — blind, lame, or paralyzed — lay on the porches. 4 * [No text] 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET WELL?
Jesus comes to us with the offer of life. His word to us is would you like to get well? He isn’t surprised by our sin, He isn’t fooled by our ego because Jesus knows all about us. His Word to you today is would you like to get well? Bend your knee to Him in service and obedience. Christ will heal you.
08/12 John 4:51-54
While he was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. 52 He asked them when the boy had begun to feel better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!” 53 Then the father realized it was the same time that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And the officer and his entire household believed in Jesus. 54 This was Jesus’ second miraculous sign in Galilee after coming from Judea.
MIRACLE
Jesus is active in our life. Too often He works a miracle in our life and we miss it. Salvation is one of those miracles. When you surrendered your life to Jesus His saving grace was a miracle. You are a new creature in Christ. Praise the Lord. Thank you for your miracle working power in our ordinary lives.
08/11 John 4:46-50
In the course of his journey through Galilee, he arrived at the town of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a government official in the city of Capernaum whose son was very sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was traveling in Galilee, he went over to Cana. He found Jesus and begged him to come to Capernaum with him to heal his son, who was about to die. 48 Jesus asked, “Must I do miraculous signs and wonders before you people will believe in me?” 49 The official pleaded, “Lord, please come now before my little boy dies.” 50 Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your son will live!” And the man believed Jesus’ word and started home.
FAITH
The government official exhibited tremendous faith. He believed in Jesus and knew that Jesus would provide for him. Jesus made a promise and the official believed Him and headed back home. Our faith is measured by testing. Until we are tested we don’t understand faith.
08/10 John 4:43-45
At the end of the two days’ stay, Jesus went on into Galilee. 44 He had previously said, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country.” 45 The Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen all his miraculous signs.
SIGNS
Jesus did many signs during His time in Galilee and Jerusalem. He died in Jerusalem for forgiveness of our sin and reconciliation with the Father-a free gift. To often we forget that and think we have to do everything for our self.
Don’t let the world overwhelm you, spend time with Jesus. He will open our eyes and give us a new heart that can comprehend the evil that we must face on an hour-by-hour time frame. The Lord is never surprised about what happens. We don’t have to fret and worry about what will happen because the Lord is here.
08/09 John 4:42
Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe because we have heard him ourselves, not just because of what you told us. He is indeed the Savior of the world.”
SAVIOR
Jesus is the Savior. He has come from the Father so that we might have life. He is intimately involved in every second of our life-He is Lord. We don’t make Him Lord because He is Lord of all. Praise the Lord. Amen.
08/08 John 4:39-41
Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!” 40 When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay at their village. So he stayed for two days, 41 long enough for many of them to hear his message and believe.
JESUS
Jesus desires to spend time with us. Do you have time to spend with Him? If you haven’t spent much time with Jesus let me encourage you to start now; and every day spend time with Jesus. It is critical for your growth to spend time with the Lord.
08/07 John 4:36-38
The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! 37 You know the saying, ‘One person plants and someone else harvests.’ And it’s true. 38 I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and you will gather the harvest.”
WORK
The Lord assigns each one of us a life path that includes work. We are to be hard workers working as unto the Lord. In the daily process of our life we are to be fishers sharing our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ to everyone we encounter. Jesus is Lord and if we are growing our relationship with Jesus it will be easy to share with others what Christ is doing in us.
08/06 John 4:34-35
Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work. 35 Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest.
SALVATION
Salvation was walking with them and they knew it not. Today the world has control of the hearts and minds of mankind. Mankind is struggling for meaning and worth and value. People enslave others and themselves. All around us the downtrodden are starving for a Savior. Jesus is the ONE. He is our salvation. He will save us from sin and death and bring us into the Family of God. Ask Jesus to save you to keep you to guide you in the way you should go.
08/05 John 4:31-33
Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to eat. 32 “No,” he said, “I have food you don’t know about.” 33 “Who brought it to him?” the disciples asked each other.
SPIRITUAL
Until Jesus was resurrected we don’t see the disciples doing anything that indicated they knew Jesus was the Christ. His resurrection changed everything. The disciples became martyrs and spiritual leaders. They discovered what Jesus was talking about first-hand by obeying the Lord and doing what He called them to do. Let us gaze with intensity at Jesus and listen to Him and do what He says.