Reasons To Believe! Part 3: How A Whole Person Is Made Whole!

John 5:1-9 (NLT)

Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.
² Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. ³ Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.

⁵ One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.

⁶ When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

⁷ “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”

⁸ Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”

⁹ Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking!

[1] Jesus  for People Who Are Hurting!

[2] Jesus People Who Are Hurting!

• Wholeness doesn’t happen by chance; it happens by !

• Wholeness requires personal !

• We ready ourselves for wholeness, by taking !

Galatians 6:5 (MSG)

Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

[3] Jesus  People Who Are Hurting!

Challenge #1 — Do !

Challenge #2 — Put the past in the

Challenge #3 – Prioritize progress not !

Challenge #4 — Don’t to what didn’t work!

John 5:14 (MSG)
A little later Jesus found him in the Temple and said, “You look wonderful! You’re well! Don’t return to a sinning life or something worse might happen.”

Recommended Book: Never Go Back – Dr. Henry Cloud