Date: Friday, 8th November, 2024
Text: Mark 5:1-20
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
The story was told of a man whose limbs on one side of his body became paralyzed; so he couldn’t move one hand and leg on that side of the body. He was brought to the Redemption City in Nigeria to see our Father-in-the Lord for prayers and he was asked if he would be willing to surrender his life to Christ. He agreed and was led to Christ. A prayer of healing was prayed on him and the Lord Jesus set him free and he regained his limbs.
However, shortly after he no longer attended church services. The follow-up department went to visit him to see how he was faring and to ask why he has not been attending church services. He answered by questioning why he should continue coming after he has gotten his healing. He said if patients go to the hospital for healing do they continue to go there after they are healed? So he concluded that there was no sense in continuing to attend the church.
Not long after the same man was found on the road with his condition worse than the earlier situation. This time, his whole body was stiff and paralyzed from the neck down and he was drooling from the mouth. He had lost his miracle because he disconnected from the Giver and Keeper of miracles.
Miracles are given for free based on mercy and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. But he wrongly compared the church of God with a hospital where you practically pay for treatment.
In Mark Chapter 5, when the mad man of Gadara was healed of his insanity he remained whole because he got busy preaching the gospel in Ten Cities (Decapolis)- Mark 5:19-20. The legions of demons that left him couldn’t come back because the man remained on fire in the service of Christ.
If you must keep your miracles permanently, remain in the love, worship and service of the Master- the lord Jesus Christ who gave you the miracle on the platter of mercy and grace.
Key Nugget: in order to keep your miracles permanently do not disconnect from the Giver and Keeper of miracles.