DID YOU MISS IT...

"Would you like to get well?"

John 5:6

Jesus himself showed up asking the man near the pool Bethesda, would like to get well? But this guy started focusing on the problem, for thirty-eight years there was a problem that he thought there was no solution to, but the problem solver came to give a diagnosis. This question can be asked in so many different ways; are you ready to be delivered? do you want to be saved? After so many years things can seem so normal. Living a life of poverty can seem normal, being sick can be normal, having conflict can seem normal or being alone can seem normal. Jesus is asking if you want a solution...there is a solution.

The guy at the well gave him a list of reasons why he was still sitting there for thirty-eight years, it became normal. Brokeness, poverty and a way of thinking was all around him. Jesus wants to know are you ready to get married but my mom ain't married, my aunty ain't married, my grandmother ain't married...notice there was Jesus with no charm, no bells and whistles. He did not come to waste time, this guy sounded as if he made at least an attempt to get into the pool to be healed, his faith was there but his focus was getting to the pool.

A solution has always been there but many sometimes we are focusing on the wrong thing.

I heard a teaching on financial abundance but in order to receive the abundance there had to be a change in the way I was thinking, the way I viewed money. This guy at the well had a way of thinking that Jesus had to show up on his behalf. There had to be revelation in order for the change to remain. Have you ever seen people go to services and was healed or delivered from sickness or disease but some time later it returned. There had to be a revelation later that I have been healed but some things needed to change, my lifestyle will need to change, my attitude need to change, my eating habits will need to change the program can no longer be the same. Jesus returned later to this same guy saying to him, "Now that you are well stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you." FYI Jesus spoke, these words. You want deliverance but you want to live your life the same. Like the story of the evil spirit leaving a person finding nowhere, he returns and that person did not give their lives to Christ and fill themselves with the word of God so the evil spirit looked for seven more powerful spirits to dwell in the same person that had been delivered-Matthew 12:41-45. Jesus showed him that he could be healed but it is not in our own strength to maintain it!

What we call strongholds, generational bondage are beliefs that things cannot change that everyone else did it this way and some how I do not believe things can change, I came for someone today. I want to remind you that it takes you to change your focus. Over and over the enemy tells us lies to keep us from healing, to keep us from having a life of prosperity, to live a life that is abundant because no one else around is abundant. I remember coming out of senior high and being given a credit card because I was working. I had no knowledge of how to manage money, no one explained finances to me or mainly a credit card. In the hands of a teenager that is pure damage (well I was not actulally a teenager but just going into my twenties). After years of trying to understand how I only spent a little bit but the payment felt like it would never end (the interest on credit cards are so high it can keep you in the red). What I am trying to explain is God has a life of prosperity for us but we cannot see it because we are focused on borrowing money from the bank, He said we will lenders and not borrowers, we will be the head and not the tail but in order for us to get there we have to change the way we think, the way we view money. Money is paper that was given a value based on the currency (based on your geographical location). The way we view the things in life depends on what we have absorbed. Marriage was not a priority for me, when I got a revelation that I needed to prepare for marriage I could not even imagine how many things needed to shift in my mind. After years of bondage, boy-friend after boy-friend, date after date there was a view of relationships that had to change. The belief, because so many people say it, all men cheat but guess what women cheat too! And all men do not cheat, all men do not have to cheat or all relationships does not end in divorce, not all marriages fail. What is your view? When I stopped watching the wrong people and started focusing on people who had marraiges that worked, relationships that worked and got revelation on what I was doing wrong there was a shift.

The evil spirit brought back seven stronger, more powerful spirits because someone got a glimpse of what it looked like to be free, what it felt like to be delivered. Before that person could have a chance to enjoy it the enemy an make it worse. Yes God did show up, yes you were healed but there was no effort on your end. There are so many things God has designed for us but we cannot receive it in a partial truth. In order to get out of a poverty mindset we have to understand money but giiiiiirrrrl I have all kinds of bills. Every dollar you recieve take fifty and put it on your bill and the other fifty in your savings. Until I said to myself I do not care what others think about me I stopped over spending on clothes and I made some trimendous sacrifices. In order to save I had to stop my bad spending habits. There are some sacrifices that will be made but it will be worth it in the end. If a better marriage is what you want you cannot subscribe to the Kardashians, you cannot watch Love and Hip-Hop.

I got to a point that I stopped watching television, it did not bring me the peace that I needed because I enjoyed watching Lifetime, I ain't knocking no one but guess what if there are some things that need to change you will have to stop feeding it.

I had been attacked, stalked and had relationships that were obsessive and not until I got a new revelation on how I was viewing relationships I was sabotaging the relationship that I did have. It seems kinda weird but it was what I knew as normal and the normal relationship seemed all a while abnormal. That is the way people that witnessed abuse in some cases end up in relationships where they are abused. These cycles and systems require knowledge and revelation to get out of it. If none of this hits home to you identify that thing in your life that will need to change, that you can identify with to bring you out of that hole that you may be in, and it may seem so hard to get out of. Having children early, out of wedlock because now that almost seems normal. Every young adult has a child before marriage and the relationship does not work, that is not normal nor is that how it should be. There are things at need to spoken about; sex, life, consequences, pain, hurt, betrayal. There are a myriad of things that we can speak about that the Lord had to show me, use people to direct me (mentors, pastors, parents) and gaining wisdom and knowledge to just know (this came from God). Jesus used the man at the pool as a point of reference for change to the other sick people at the pool. There is no need to keep running from a commitment that you need, you need God, you need His knowledge and wisdom to apply everything that you are learning from the word of God, everything that you hear to your life. I did not know I needed deliverance from bad/wrong thinking until I heard a word and I grabbed it, meditated on it and applied it.

Jesus is asking would you like to get well? But I want to know if you missed it, did you get it? Don't miss God's word for you with a doubt or procrastinating. Focus on the solution not the problem. Focus on getting better what that looks like, how will you be a blessing to others like the woman at the well who shared her testimony or the one leper who returned to say thanks and he not only was healed but received wholeness, there was more to the healing for completeness.

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