Date: Friday, 13th October, 2023
Text: John 5:1-9
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
While the Lord walked the Earth physically, He went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed because of the anointing of the Holy Ghost from the Father. He went about preaching. If you remove the first letter, ‘p’ from the word preach, you have, ‘reach’. His mission was to reach the unreached. In Mark 1:38, “And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.” No matter the corner you are, God has taken note of you. He is interested in your welfare.
Furthermore, if you remove the ‘r’ in the word, “reach”, you have “each”. The word of Christ goes to each individual. It is a personal thing. No wonder Jesus went to the pool of Bethsaida just because of one man who had been sick for 38 years-John 5:1-9.
In Mark 5:1-15, Jesus crossed to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes just because of only one mad man whose case appeared hopeless. At the end of the day, the man was completely healed.
He knows you as a person and wants to relate with you as such if you will open your heart, repent, forsake all acts of disobedience.
The Spirit of Christ is still moving around today binding up the broken-hearted, proclaiming liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. Let him in!
Prayer Nugget: I open the door of my heart to you Lord Jesus, come right in.