Fresh Perspective

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

"sir" the man said, "I don't have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, someone goes down ahead of me."

"Get up", Jesus told him, "pick up you mat and walk!" Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk. Jn 5:58

Now from the man's response he did not know Jesus, he called him sir, not rabbi as some had. Perhaps this was the first time Jesus had been to the pool of Bethesda (house of mercy).

Yet, when Jesus spoke, the same voice that commanded, "let there be light", spoke and just as the natural elements came into order and obeyed Him so did the man. There was divine authority in this man Jesus.

As we hear the Rhema of God (the spoken word) the same power that raised this man, in fact the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is here.

Jesus has given us authority to speak in His name, to take back the authority over our health from our enemy, dare we believe.

The response of the man indicates that he assumed he would never make it and always be the same. Yet in an instant it all changed, a new dynamic had entered his world.

Yesterday I spoke to a woman who believed she would die from cancer within a few years if not within a year. I told her that from when I was in my thirties I have had moments when I had thought I was going to go, in fact I was ready to go. Yet I did not die. I told her this to show her how we can believe something but our beliefs are wrong, and in fact they do not come to pass.

I have been brought into this woman's life to help. Last time I met her I enabled her to let her burden go. I pray this time I have given her a fresh perspective. I was able to pray with her and bring God into her believing, it is He who changes things, for He is God. Amen!