JIGM – JESUS IS GLOBAL MINISTRIES
One Lord One Faith
Rise And Walk Out Your Destiny
137th BDS- 8/22/2024
Scripture Reference: Matthew 9:1-8, John 5:1-15, Exodus 21:18-20
It never ceases to amaze me how GOD has a plan for all of us! I mean through countless moments in His Word He heals, sets free and delivers those that He has chosen to be let loose of whatever troubled them. Now some may say: “He hasn’t done anything like that for me.. I still have diabetes, I still have cancer, I still suffer from a broken heart, I still struggle with alcohol and/or drugs…”, but yet they keep right on waking up every morning to a new day, another chance to get to know Who JESUS is and yet another chance at redemption through baptism in The NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT which leads to eternal life in a new Heaven and a new Earth.
“And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.”
Matthew 9:3-6 KJV
What blocks most from truly believing that sins can be forgiven and that healing does take place, is a lack of belief in JESUS Himself and the power of His persecution, death, burial and resurrection. (vs. 3) JESUS was given the power to erase our sins, so that every day is a new day with Him when we repent (ask forgiveness and turn from the sin), put it behind us, pick up a renewed strength in Him and leave what weighed us down on the bed of forgetfulness. (vs. 6)
In verse 6 of John Chapter 5, JESUS simply asks the diseased man lying by the pool of Bethesda: “Wilt thou be made whole?” As to say, “Do you want to be healed?” The same that He inquires of all of us. Do you want to be changed in your way of thinking, acting, talking and walking through this fallen World? Or, would you rather continue on the same trek for the rest of your natural life without knowing Who He is and experiencing the power that is so freely promised to and given to us that believe in Him? (2 Timothy 3:5-6)
“Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.” John 5:8-9 KJV
Final Thought: Surely, there will be those who mock the very thought of us that believe in a GOD that we can’t see, let alone a man that gave His life for us on the cross at Calvary so that we would be free from sin and the sting of death. They will even try to destroy the hope that we have in and through JESUS CHRIST by their words, actions and plots against us.
“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”
John 5:18 KJV
Remember Who you belong to, the price that He paid with His very own life just for you and the promise that He made to be with you even until the end of the World. Those that oppose you and how GOD has chosen to work in you and through you will have to answer for their deeds.. meanwhile, you keep right on getting up when you fall short of His glory, dust off the old habits and ask JESUS to help you to keep walking out your Heavenly destiny!!!
“And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.”
Exodus 21:18-20 KJV
-Minister Marchand, Founder and Overseer of JESUS IS GLOBAL MINISTRIES-JIGM and JESUS IS GLOBAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY-JIGMIA