Good Morning.  Here’s Today’s Nugget to chew on:

“No More Limits”

John 5:1-9 The Message (MSG)

1-6 Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, “Do you want to get well?”

7 The sick man said, “Sir, when the water is stirred, I don’t have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in.”

8-9 Jesus said, “Get up, take your bedroll, start walking.” The man was healed on the spot. He picked up his bedroll and walked off.

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Further Thought:  In today’s passage, we find Jesus walking up to a man who had been in his current condition for 38 years.  In the Kingdom of God, it doesn’t matter how long you or I have had the issue.  Jesus, recognizing how long the man had been in his current state, asked him, “Do you want to get well?”.  The man begins to tell Jesus about his limitations.  However, Jesus ignored his response and said, “Get up, take your bedroll, start walking.”  The man was healed on the spot.  Let’s recognize our part is to focus on the solution and not the problem.  Could it be that we are making receiving what we need from Jesus harder than it should be?  I believe we can learn from the invalid by taking Jesus at his word, according to Isaiah 53:4-5; by the stripes that Jesus took, all the healing we will ever need is available now.  Now, we must believe it, receive it, and act on it as the invalid did in today’s passage.  Let’s remember, according to Mark 10:27, that whatever you may be facing may be impossible according to man, but not with God.  For with God, “All Things Are Possible”, according to Mark 10:27.

So, the question today is “Do you want to get well?”  Now you may not need a physical healing, but the required response is still the same.  Find out the answer God has provided in His Word, begin to meditate on it, believe it, receive it and rest that it will manifest in your life.  Let’s remember that faith in God comes only one way, and that is by hearing and hearing the answer He has provided in His Word.  As believers who have put their trust in Jesus and His Word, which are the same, we set the limits on what we receive from God.  As we close, let me encourage you to take the limits off what God’s Word can do in your life.  Be determined that whatever the Word of God says you can have, take it—no more limits.  

Additional references:  John 1:1; Romans 10:17; Proverbs 4:20-22; Psalm 103:3; Psalm 107:20; 1 Peter 2:24; Mark 11:24-26 and 1 John 5:14-15                       

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Today’s Recommended Reading 1 Corinthians 2