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Volume 86-18, August 2018
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the
The King James Version of verse 47 says: “The man besought him,”
water wine, and there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick
while the New King James Version says: “The man implored Him.” A
at Capernaum.
simple deZinition of those phrases means to ask someone to do
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
something for you as a favour. It implies that you know you do not deserve it. The dictionary deZines the word “beseech” as to ask someone urgently and fervently to do something, while to implore means to beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.
49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child
Panic is deZined as a sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often
dies!”
causing wildly, unthinking behaviour. Peace means nothing missing,
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man
nothing broken, or being in a state that keeps you above the
believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
circumstances and situations that you are facing in life.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
There are points in life when you are faced with situations that
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, and his whole household.
allow fear to creep in and suddenly it becomes an uncontrollable panic. That should not be the case for you as a believer. We are going to see that the nobleman was pretty much in that state, and at the end of the story he got his miracle. However, people in panic
54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out
do not usually get their miracle except by a word of knowledge. So,
of Judea into Galilee.
it means this man moved from the point of panic to a point where John 4:46-54
he could receive from God. To move from panic to peace there are three things, which you must know.
While reading a devotional on a certain day, this text came to mind, and as I began to read it, the Spirit of God spoke to my heart that
You Must Hear The Word Of God
this was an example of panic to peace. The moment I heard that, I
The Zirst step in your journey from panic to peace is to hear the
began to look at these verses of Scripture some more. I spent some
Word of God. Looking at what the man did right or what he did
days studying it and came up with some very interesting simple
wrong, the Bible states that this was the Zirst place where Jesus
things, which you may already know, but I believe will bless you in
turned water into wine. This means that the information has some
this article and the next.
relevance to the story. The man had heard something and what he had heard built some sort of respect or regard for the ministry of Jesus.
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