Sowing Seeds of Mercy (1 of 4)
Series: Seeds
Lenny Ports
John 5:1
Everything we do for God can be likened to seeds. Every seed that is planted on good ground is going to yield a good harvest. Life is full of opportunities for us to sow seeds - in prayer, in peoples' lives and in preparation for what God is desiring to do in our lives.
TODAY I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOWING SEEDS OF MERCY.
The church is to be a place of mercy, healing, and restoration. God said, ''For this place shall be marked uniquely as a place like the Pool of Bethesda.'' Let's look at that story in the Gospel of John, chapter 5:
John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, ''Do you want to be made well?'' 7 The sick man answered Him, ''Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.'' 8 Jesus said to him, ''Rise, take up your bed and walk.'' 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.
Jesus said, ''DO YOU WANT TO MADE WELL?'' Then the WORD came (Rise, take up your bed and walk), and the man took up his bed and walked, after being crippled for 38 years! 38 years is a long time.
Some of you have been stuck at a certain place spiritually for a long time.
- You've been sidelined, unable to walk with God, or to get ...
Series: Seeds
Lenny Ports
John 5:1
Everything we do for God can be likened to seeds. Every seed that is planted on good ground is going to yield a good harvest. Life is full of opportunities for us to sow seeds - in prayer, in peoples' lives and in preparation for what God is desiring to do in our lives.
TODAY I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOWING SEEDS OF MERCY.
The church is to be a place of mercy, healing, and restoration. God said, ''For this place shall be marked uniquely as a place like the Pool of Bethesda.'' Let's look at that story in the Gospel of John, chapter 5:
John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, ''Do you want to be made well?'' 7 The sick man answered Him, ''Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.'' 8 Jesus said to him, ''Rise, take up your bed and walk.'' 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.
Jesus said, ''DO YOU WANT TO MADE WELL?'' Then the WORD came (Rise, take up your bed and walk), and the man took up his bed and walked, after being crippled for 38 years! 38 years is a long time.
Some of you have been stuck at a certain place spiritually for a long time.
- You've been sidelined, unable to walk with God, or to get ...
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