12 June 2019 John 5:1-9

Heavenly Father
give me grace to not loose the desire to be well, and the courage to do the things I fear that I cannot do; and
make me a channel of your grace to those who have lost hope and courage .

John 5

¹ After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. ³ In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; ⁴ for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. ⁵ A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

⁷ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
⁸ Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
⁹ Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.