Category: Bible Studies

Another healed…

John 5:1-15
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Stop sinning. This is exactly what it means. Stop sinning, or worse could happen to you. Those were the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ then, and they are His words now. Worse could happen to you.

Ask for help. Ask Him. He will respond. We must listen when He does. You will get clear direction from the Holy Spirit. That was a promise from Jesus as well, a Spirit that is always with us to help guide us as we grow toward God. Son, hiqever, can cause us to fall away or divert from God’s plan in our lives. He never fails and He will make it right, but if we would only listen the first time.

Get up, grab your mat, and walk. Amen! Can you picture the scene? How amazing that must’ve been to see that in person. We are all hurting in one way, shape, or form on this earth. It’s not home. The devil was given free feign here, and he tries daily to get us and drag us away. He is good at it. Don’t try to fight Him alone. You need Jesus to conquer the devil, like He did so many times in His life. Run to Him, and always get up and walk. #JesusSaves

Listen to what the official demands…

John 4:43-54
43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Jesus did not even have to go and see the boy. He healed him from a distance. He did it through the faithful the Father of the boy. The Father believed and demanded that Jesus come down and heal his son. Expectation!

You think we should ask like that? It isn’t wrong to demand what we need from God. He will listen. Many times He will give you what you ask for. Many times not. But one thing is for certain, it will be in His time and not ours. His plan and not ours. We must understand though, that unless we ask we will never receive. That is truth.

“Sir, come down before my child dies.”, was the officials statement. In the name of Jesus politely demand what you need right now. Say it clearly, so that you will hear it as well as God. Pray. Ask, Seek, Knock…ASK. Knock until your knuckles bleed. #JesusSaves

Amen
DK

One witness changes many…

John 4:39-42
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when Samaritans came to Him, they urged Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days. 41 And because of ahis words, many more became believers.

42 They said to the woman, “We no longer just believe because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the World.”

Powerful stuff right there. This woman, as you remember, was just getting water at the well and met Jesus. She felt unacceptable, unforgivable, separated from all that is right. Jesus offers her freedom and salvation despite her circumstances because He knows her heart. He knew she would tell others. He knew she would be His witness here on earth. Wow!

As she began to tell others, they believed her. Why? Why would they believe her? It is my belief that they believed her because she now walked with the Holy Spirit and the power that it brings. She had accepted Jesus at the well, and God’s promise is always fulfilled.

It is time to share how we came to know Christ with others. Thre are many others that need to hear it from you. That is why He chose you. Because He knew that you would share your story and be a witness for Christ He chose YOU. It is time to activate. Not only activate yourself, but to activate others with the power of the Holy Spirit that you possess. It is His gift to you. Let’s act on that today! Share… #JesusSaves
Amen
DK

You reap what you sow, and sow what you reap…

John 4:27-39
27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

Sow my friends. It is what we are called to do. If someone told you that you are to plant a tree that you will never sit in the shade of, would you still plant it? The answer is YES! We are sent to spread the news, not hold it for personal gain. Jesus has come and will come again. Do not be fooled by your eyes. Listen to the still small voice of the Holy Spirit.

Be fulfilled, not just filled. If you hunt for what your stomach wants only, will not your soul thirst and hunger for more? It will and it does. Daily you fill your belly yet I am almost sure that you can recall one moment where you satisfied your flesh yet yearned for calmness in you soul and heart. That is what Jesus is talking about.

You can chase what your eyes and ears hear and see, but it isn’t until your heart and soul are fulfilled with the love and forgiveness of the Holy Spirit that you will find rest and peace. The love of the Father trumps all things. It is enough to make you fall to your knees and praise the God of the Universe.

Let us sow today, and reap the gift of Jesus Christ from God the Father. #JesusSaves

Amen
DK

Drink from the well of Living Waters…

John 4:1-26
1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

What was to be the back wayhome, became the revealing His Truth to a Samaritan woman. Revealed for all of us to know. Jesus was our access to Living Water, and thus woman was so blessed to hear it from Christ Himself. Wow!

In meeting Jesus, this woman had been allowed to witness the initial tearing down of the barrier that kept us from God. The tearing down of sin and distortion of His Truth had begun. No longer we going to have to jump through hoops to supposedly have access to God. Jesus was here to eradicate all of that nonsense that man had placed between us and God. Jesus was here to quench our thirst.

To never be thirsty again. What a beautiful product of His love. Living Waters will flow through us and into others from us. This conversation can be had now with all of those that we as believers come into contact with. We can share the way Jesus did.

The woman was sitting with the Messiah at the well. She was with the One who brought truth to this world. And now, He lives in all of us. Jesus saved us all. Spread the Good News! #JesusSaves

Amen
DK