AND HEALED THOSE WHO NEEDED HEALING.
Blessed be the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Welcome.Let us study the Word of God,which is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path (Psalm 119:105).
Among the crowds who knew or followed the Lord Jesus, only a few people were healed of their diseases and problems.Whereas many of them did experience any miracles in their lives.Neither were they freed of their suffering,hence they remained in their usual condition.Why ? It’s because they had no need of healing.Perhaps , due to their unbelief or they held Jesus in contempt.
Luke 9:11;
“And the people,when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.”
When Jesus went to his home town in Galilee, the Bible says he did not perform many miracles there.Because people held him in contempt and did believe in him.
Matthew 13:53-58;
“And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Is not this the carpenter’s son?is not this mother called Mary?and his brethren,James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
And his sisters, are they not all with us?Whence then hath this man all these things?
And they were offended in him.But Jesus said unto them,A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”
On another occasion, Jesus went up to Jerusalem to the feast of the Jews.There he came to a pool called Bethesda where a great number of invalids who needed used to lie.But many of them had no need of healing.They had set their minds and hopes on the pool whose water they believed had an anointing effect.
As he walked about where the disabled lay, Jesus might have met some whom he asked if they were in of healing, and maybe they didn’t answer but just ignored and sent him away.Nevertheless,Jesus encountered another one among them who had been invalid for a long time now (38 years); and asked him whether he needed to be well.This man admitted that he had longed to get healing but there was no one to help him into the pool while the water was stirred.A miracle happened! Jesus told him to get up,pick his mat and walk.He believed Jesus at his word, and he was healed from that moment and began to walk.But the rest still lay waiting for the water to be stirred.
John 5:19;
“After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool,which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk,of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
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 whatsoever disease he had.
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
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?
The impotent man answered,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.
Jesus saith unto him,Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath.”
Do you need healing in your sick body and soul?Turn your hopes from the use of the so-called “anointing water,salt or oil.”Trust in the Lord and believe his words.Then rise rise on your feet.
Perhaps you have relied on anointing water or oil for a long time but have see no change.This day,turn and listen to the words of the Lord in the Bible which say,”BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED”.(Isaiah 53:5)Do not look at the crowds.
If you ever encountered places where people believe in items of anointing like oil or salt or water,as a solution to their problems,then you will realize that there’s usually overcrowding in such places.Yet their problems never heal nor do their illnesses.The people continue to wallow in their suffering hoping to get healing one day.On the contrary, there is usually no congesting of people where Jesus is present.For Christ is not a DOCTOR but a HEALER!
Today,cast off the containers with anointing water or oil.Believe in the Lord Jesus who alone is the solution to all your problems.Wait on God to see him work miracles in your life.I suppose you will wonder why you spent all your time”waiting at the pool!”
Be blessed always.