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by Precarious Yates
Narrated by Artificial Intelligence – Jenny.
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Sometimes everything crashes in on people all at once. Bills. Heath issues. Relationship issues. Who can help in these situations?
So often in the gospels, Jesus is confronted by situations or approached by people where the desperation knows no bounds.
There was the demoniac who lived naked among the tombs and cut himself. There was the Syrophoenician mother with the demon possessed child. In both these situations, Jesus traveled a great distance only to encounter these people. Jesus restored the oppressed people to full functionality. Then he left to minister to others.
There is the woman who had the issue of blood, who had spent all her living on doctors. There was the paralyzed man who was lowered through the roof of someone else’s house by four friends. There was the man with the withered hand at the synagogue. These were people who, likely, experienced severe economic strains in their pursuit of healing. And when they encountered Jesus, their lives were transformed.
Today, there are people all over the world, all over your community, in equally desperate situations. They need healing. They need hope. They need freedom.
Who can do this? Who can bring healing? Who can let people know that there is hope, salvation, and freedom in Christ Jesus?
When Jesus ascended into heaven, He left His people on earth to be His body, to function as He did by bringing healing, freedom, and hope to people.
We are the hands and feet of Jesus in a broken and fallen world. Sometimes, the only way some people will encounter Jesus is through us.
How do we do this? In our own strength? By our own ideas?
In Zechariah 4:6, God gives us insight.
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.”
“Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.”
Zechariah 4:6
Some travel all the way across the world to meet with just one person, to bring God’s love and healing, not knowing how God moves in the situation but knowing that He does. Because it’s not by might, and not by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts.
God bless you!
Precarious Yates
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