There was a man that was sitting near the Pool of Bethesda. He had been sitting there for many years watching people go in sick crippled and come out whole. He knew that God can heal. He saw it happen all the time. The waters would be stirred and then those in the pool were healed. This is the God can realm, just a little out of reach....
Then Jesus came along (bringing the Kingdom with Him) and he stopped after seeing the man sitting on his mat. He asked the man " Do you want to be healed?" (only kingdom knowledge would ask such a question, knowing that if the answer was yes, that God will heal him) The kingdom was at hand, within this man's reach. The man made excuses why he was not healed....no one would carry him there.....others got there before him...This is the IF ONLY realm. If only...my husband had not left me, if only my parents had not abused me...if only.... ( excuses)
Jesus knew that there was substance in the kingdom that was there to be taken to be healed but it required one thing....faith and to walk it out. The Lord said, get up....(out of the IF realm and the I can't realm) and pick up your mat ( the comfort zone, the place that has become the prison) and WALK. The man chose to get up, pick up his mat and began to walk. It was after this that we are to become living, walking, testimonies of Jesus and His goodness and power and love.... To live in the IS realm. The place where God will do what He said He will and we begin to live there. Imagine the difference, kingdom living instead of living in the seen realm and only doing what our eyes see. I want to do what I see the Lord doing in the unseen realm and walking it out in the seen realm. The kingdom is at hand...
God is good !
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