For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. (Psalms 30:5)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n There is a season that you and I go through for a certain period but that season will change and will not remain for ever!\u00a0Every season has a timeline. Every season has a shelf-life.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I like to tell you today no matter what you\u00a0have been going through, that disappointment, that discouragement, that pain that hurt, there is “a miracle in your storm” and you better get ready receive it. You need to know a secret in God’s economy that is God will only meet you at the level of your FAITH.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Job 23:10 “But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” <\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Job had great expectation, Job had great faith; that he will not remain in the same situation for ever. Literally he was making an appointment to meet God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Don’t ever\u00a0keep saying, “I am waiting for God to move” because God is saying to you today, unless you take the bold step of faith and make that move first I can’t move my arm to fight the battle for you.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE INVALID AT THE POOL OF BETHESDA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n John 5:6<\/strong> (DO YOU WANT TO GET WELL?)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There was in Jerusalem near the sheep-gate a pool surrounded by five arches, which has the Hebrew name of Bethzatha (the Pool of Bethesda). Under these arches a great many sick people were in the habit of lying; some of them were blind, some lame, and some had withered limbs. (They used to wait there for the “moving of the water”, for at certain times an angel used to come down into the pool and disturb the water, and then the first person who stepped into the water after the disturbance would be healed of whatever he was suffering from\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One particular man had been there ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there on his back \u2013 knowing that he had been like that for a long time, he asked him,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Do you want to get well again?”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Sir,” replied the sick man, “I just haven\u2019t got anybody to put me into the pool when the water is all stirred up. While I\u2019m trying to get there somebody else gets down into it first.”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jesus asked him a direct and simple question. Instead\u00a0the man was giving excuses to cover up why he was not healed. Have you ever noticed human nature has a tendency of blaming somebody for their problems? We refuse to look inside us! We refuse to take responsibility for our problems. But we like to keep blaming others, blaming circumstances and\u00a0sometimes we even blame God for our condition!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Listen to me! God can never move! God can never perform a miracle in your life as long as you are staying in a place of self-pity and put every blame outside of you. You will never get any breakthrough, believe me!<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s see what is happening here? Jesus completely ignores the excuses of this man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Get up,” said Jesus, “pick up your bed and walk!” Jesus gives a command with an authority\u00a0\u00a0In other words Jesus is telling this sick man, \u201cEnough of all your excuses of blaming others. This is the moment for you\u00a0to change your thinking! Change your mind-set,\u00a0move into your FAITH in God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At once the man recovered, picked up his bed and walked. Can you see something awesome here? The moment he moves his focus from his excuse to God\u2019s command he receives his healing.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Changing-seasons1\"](\"http:\/\/ladyquitecontrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Changing-seasons1.jpg\")
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