Key Verse
He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
(Mark 2:12)
Central Truth
We pray you keep the faith in seeing the miracles in your daily lives. Even though Jesus does not walk the face of earth as man anymore, miracles still happen everyday.
MIRACLES
Did you ever realize there are several different little stories or scenes in this one chapter in Mark? Well, there are actually four in chapter 2: Jesus heals a paralytic, Jesus eats with sinners, Jesus is questioned about fasting, and Jesus tells about the Sabbath. We were first focused on verse 17, but we struggled many nights with how to put our words and feelings on paper. So we reread our chapter again in the quiet of the night (our children are asleep!). Then it was almost like "someone" hi-lighted verse 12. It really did feel like one of those moments I (Alleyne) refer to as a God moment!
The paralytic in Mark 2 had incredible friends that brought him to Jesus. They let nothing stop them. They truly had strong faith in what Jesus could do for their friend who could not walk. In this miracle, Jesus makes their friend get up off the mat and walk out. The hands of Jesus healed him! The witnesses were amazed.
We have had miracles occur in our own lives, just like the paralytic, some huge and some small. We are ashamed to admit though, that we fail many days to put our faith in Jesus' miracles. We "take" things into our own hands to handle life's situations, even sometimes never relying and asking for Jesus' help until we reach that panic mode. And who is still there? JESUS! No questions asked, no lectures, no guilt trip.............just Jesus, always there.
He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
(Mark 2:12)
Central Truth
We pray you keep the faith in seeing the miracles in your daily lives. Even though Jesus does not walk the face of earth as man anymore, miracles still happen everyday.
MIRACLES
Did you ever realize there are several different little stories or scenes in this one chapter in Mark? Well, there are actually four in chapter 2: Jesus heals a paralytic, Jesus eats with sinners, Jesus is questioned about fasting, and Jesus tells about the Sabbath. We were first focused on verse 17, but we struggled many nights with how to put our words and feelings on paper. So we reread our chapter again in the quiet of the night (our children are asleep!). Then it was almost like "someone" hi-lighted verse 12. It really did feel like one of those moments I (Alleyne) refer to as a God moment!
The paralytic in Mark 2 had incredible friends that brought him to Jesus. They let nothing stop them. They truly had strong faith in what Jesus could do for their friend who could not walk. In this miracle, Jesus makes their friend get up off the mat and walk out. The hands of Jesus healed him! The witnesses were amazed.
We have had miracles occur in our own lives, just like the paralytic, some huge and some small. We are ashamed to admit though, that we fail many days to put our faith in Jesus' miracles. We "take" things into our own hands to handle life's situations, even sometimes never relying and asking for Jesus' help until we reach that panic mode. And who is still there? JESUS! No questions asked, no lectures, no guilt trip.............just Jesus, always there.
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