" Just Keep Coming! "

John 5: 2 - 8

2: Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

3: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4: For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatever disease he had.

5: And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

6: When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

7: The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

He didn't have anyone that could help him get in, but he was still coming to try and get in.

8: Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

The man received salvation, he was made whole.

 

Sometime back here at the church we began having prayer. We were instructed that if there was anything we needed from the Lord, to believe, and come to the front to receive prayer and whatever we needed. Well I had some things I was after from the Lord! For myself and someone I knew! In Matthew 15 the woman went after Jesus for her daughter, I was after Jesus for this someone too.

It can be uncomfortable going each time, your unbelief starts to arise and try to get the best of you. Will people think you really need a lot of prayer because you keep going each time? But I kept coming! Then one day standing there before the invitation was given, the Lord spoke to me, " Keep coming for ( the person's name )." Now I had no excuse!

Every time the invitation was given I reminded myself of the words Jesus had said to me, "Keep coming for.... " I didn't want my unbelief to stop what was available. And if I had to be like the woman in Matthew who kept coming after Jesus, taking all the crumbs she could get, then I knew I had to keep coming. I would remind the Lord of that.

This person couldn't walk and be there to go to the front for prayer; but I could, and I was there on their behalf, before the Lord.

 Well I kept coming, believing the words spoken to me, and pushing away everything else trying to get me to not go. Even though to my eyes it didn't seem like much was happening, results did come, and that brought a change. A change where they received salvation and were delivered!

That is what is available to us when we serve the man raised from the dead. That man's name is Jesus Christ!

I encourage you to call on his name, Jesus. Call on him, go to him, stay after him for whatever you need!! Don't just go once, twice, a few times, and give up! Be persistent!! Fight for what you are after from the Lord! He is the only one who can bring the salvation in our lives.

God Bless!
Misty