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Stuck for 38 Years (Pool at Bethesda)!

by Power User Peter Grant on June 11, 2010

Can you imagine being stuck for 38 years?  Whether it is fighting to provide for your family; building a loving and lasting marriage; establishing your own business; or, fulfilling God’s call on your life.  Whatever area it may be, sitting in one place for 38 years is a very long time.  The sick man in St. John 5 did not have to imagine being stuck for 38 years, because he experienced it.

 

 

The Bible tells us that there was a certain pool in Bethesda around which sick people gathered.  They did this because an angel “troubled the water” of the pool at a certain season and whoever was first to touch the water after the “troubling,” was healed.  I can see people with all kinds of sicknesses and diseases just waiting – hoping and then fighting to get in first.

 

 

When Jesus approached the Pool of Bethesda on that particular day, he met a man who had been sick for 38 years and had tried every time that the water was troubled to get in first.  Unfortunately, there were people who were younger and stronger who always beat him to the punch.

 

 

What do you do when for 38 years you try to move on from that “stuck position” and you still remain stuck?

 

 

It may not be quite 38 years, but it has been a very long time.  You are stuck and you know it.  What do you do?  You might have already given up.  You might have told yourself that it makes no sense to even

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4 Comments

foluwaso ibitoye · Become a Fan

GOD BLESS U REAL GUD.....

WE WILL WAIT UPON D LORD
HIS PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY
AND OUR STRENGTH WIL BE RESTORE
AS WE WAIT,.....UPON D LORD

35 months ago
Fin Santos · Become a Fan

Your message is so accurate and i'm 38 yrs. old and seems the tide is always against me. But i still have that faith, not my faith but the faith that he has given me to hang on. Please pray for my financial situation and my music career with my sweetheart. I just woke up early and open up my email and got your very encouraging message. Thank you and may God use you more to encourage others.

Fin

35 months ago
Hira Tua · Become a Fan

Hey there Pete Know where you stand with Our Lord and Savior answer these 11 Questions or any other person that might read this Specially if you think that our Lord has called you

Q 1. Does man have a free will ( )

Q 2. Do we go to Heaven when we die ( )

Q 3. Is there hope for those on the wide road to destruction ( )

Q 4. Has any other person apart from Jesus gone to heaven ( )

Q 5. Did Eve sin before she ate of the forbidden fruit ( )

Q 6. Was Satan evil from the Beginning ( )

Q 7. Are we under the Mosaic Law (old covenant) ( )

Q 8. Is Christmas and Easter of pagan origin ( )

Q 9. Is knowing good and evil a requirement of God ( )

Q 10. Was man made in two stages formed from the dust God breathe ( )

Q 11. Is Jesus the Rock ( )

35 months ago
Rafael · Become a Fan

Rob T, did you ever read a Bible? all answers there!!!!!

35 months ago