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Before Your
MIRACLE Pastor Nkechi Ene (Mrs.)
1 A n d a g a i n H e e n t e r e d C a p e r n a u m after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. 2 Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. 3 Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. 4 And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” 6 And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” Mark 2:1-12
The Scripture above tells us the story of Jesus and the paralytic man. The man was paralyzed, and being paralytic means being in a state of inaction, or a state where you are incapable of doing what you want to do when you want to do it. However, it is encouraging to learn that even in that state, the paralytic man received his miracle. A miracle is the
supernatural intervention of God in the
close to Jesus. One might wonder why it was
challenges you experience in your life. In this article, I will show you certain things you need to know and also do before you can experience your miracle.
so important for them to be close to Him. I mean, this was the Man who preached the Sermon on the Mount, so, we know He had some kind of supernatural public address system and people could hear Him from any
Go To Where Jesus Is
distance. These people had seen Jesus minister to the sick and they got healed without necessarily having Jesus touch them. So, why did they want to come closer?
People gathered when they heard that Jesus was in a house in Capernaum, and Jesus preached the Word to those who had gathered. Go to where Jesus is; where the Word of God is preached and God is
This was borne out of a desire to make
exalted. You may be in a place where there are lots of people but you have to be sure that Jesus is there if you really want to experience your miracle.
contact. You have to desire to make contact before you get your miracle. Let me balance this a bit. When I said desire to make contact, I just told you that this paralytic wanted to come close to Jesus, so, he desired
When you are where Jesus is, you shall receive your miracle. That was the reason why Jesus, immediately He saw the crowd, took advantage of that opportunity and began to teach them, and as He taught them
to make physical contact with Him. However, one interesting point I would like to stress here is that contact doesn’t necessarily come because you got physically close.
the Word, people were healed because Jesus was in the house. It is important to note that Jesus was the main attraction. In the Bible, the size of the house or what the house looked like was not
When you look at different people in the Scriptures, like the woman with the issue of blood (Matthew 9:20-22), she received contact when she physically touched Jesus but Jesus was not aware beforehand. The
mentioned. This goes to show that as long as Jesus is there, people will come like metal comes to a magnet. Jesus has to be in the house; so, go to where Jesus is. I can assure you that when you relax and trust God, your
Centurion received contact when he got a word from Jesus and that was enough for him (Matthew 8:5-13). Jairus received contact when he could get Jesus to agree to come to his house (Mark 5:22-43). So, contact
miracle will be closer than you can think or imagine.
doesn’t necessarily happen when you come physically close. For this particular story, the paralytic knew that he needed to come close.
Desire To Make Contact
In our text, we noticed that the four men carrying the paralytic man wanted to get
When you desire to make contact, you will not wait for someone to come up to you and
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