40 Day Devotionals 2014 Day 30

I am exhausted! Have I said that before? I feel like I have. I have had a busy week driving to and from the Youth Pastor Summit. I will write thoughts about that later. I had a lot of catching up to do in the office. I still do. Hence why the devotional for today didn't get up. So here is a one for you!

Day 30
Scripture

John 5:1-9

-    Before Reading the scripture today; Pray and ask the spirit to guide you in the reading:
-    1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4]  5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”  7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”  8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

Wisdom

-    Sometimes, even when we aren’t sick, we feel like we aren’t complete. That we are not all there. Perhaps there is a part of your life where you don’t feel complete. Reading this passage, think about that. Read the passage again thinking about some aspects of your life that need fulfillment. Why would the Holy Spirit bring these things to your attention? Jesus is asking, “Do you not want to be made well of your problem?”
-    Jesus healed the man immediately even though he complained and said that no one was willing to help him. Don’t you think Jesus will help you if you have the faith that He can? Really think about where your life is and what part of it needs to be complete. Perhaps you need to let go of something in your life to allow healing to happen. Perhaps it’s the idea that you are victim, or that no one is helping you, or that you don’t have the ability. The reality is God works above and beyond all of those limitations.

Apply

-    Are there times in your life where you are just getting in your own way; complaining, suffering, holding yourself back? How can you motivate yourself to a place of Faith?
-    Do you have the faith to give your illnesses; physical, mental, emotional or social, to Jesus so that He can heal them?

Prayer

-    Praise Jesus for helping us daily. Ask Him to heal your problems and illnesses; physical, mental, and emotional. Ask Jesus to reveal to you what is holding you back to have the faith to have Him heal everything in your life. Ask the Lord for patience to let Him heal you in his time.