Often in life we are in need of others to help us out when we are unable to help ourselves. This is love in action. In Mark 2:1-12 we read an account of four guys who forcefully interrupt Jesus in the middle of one of His sermons to place before His feet a paralytic man in need of physical healing. Obviously, since the man was paralyzed he was unable to physically force his own way into the presence of Jesus. Thus, the need of his friends. It was the faith and love of the man’s four friends who lowered him before Jesus that began this miracle of healing. Today, if we look around we will realize that we are surrounded by spiritual paralytics, meaning those who are spiritually crippled and are unable to go before God themselves due to a variety of reasons. They are in need of God’s miracle and our love. This is an opportunity for us to demonstrate our faith and love by spiritually placing those who are presently unable to do so for themselves before the feet of Christ through prayer. God honors and loves this type of faith in action through prayer. At the end of the account in Mark 2:12 we read that the crowd was amazed at the power of Jesus. His power is still amazing. Let us go before Jesus today in faith, placing before Him those who are in need of a spiritual healing and are unable to do so for themselves.
God bless,
Pastor Joe
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