Jesus - Both Healer and Saviour- Part 702

And Jesus said unto them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved but he that believes not shall be damned. But there is more. The scriptures state that these signs shall follow them that believe -- "In my name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing -- it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." (Mark 16:15-18)

Immediately, after the Lord had spoken these words, He was received up into heaven. What did the apostles do? They went forth and preached the good news gospel everywhere. They baptized new believers in Jesus name according to Acts 2:37-42. Throughout, the Lord worked with them confirming the Word with signs following. 

Imagine, believing Jesus enough to perform the miracles and healings that He did. Having faith enough to move mountains. Possessing a believing faith like as unto a mustard seed. Jesus did not create sickness. Indeed, when Jesus shed His holy blood on the cross, it was so that we could be healed and restored anew.

Isaiah wrote "By His stripes we are healed. 

In John chapter five, we read that Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And in Jerusalem, there is by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 

And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He said unto him, "Wilt thou be made whole?

The impotent man answered Jesus saying, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me." Does this sound like us in our own lives. We are just about there and then -- something happens to prevent the healing. The miracle. The victory. 

Throughout these times, we need to remember that Jesus wants us to succeed -- being victorious in our walk with the King of kings and Lord of lords. This is why Jesus said unto the man, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." Immediately the man was made whole. Immediately, the life that the man had known for so long was changed. Transformed. Yes, the man took up his bed, and walked.

We are to do the same. Trust Jesus for your salvation. Trust Jesus for the miracle in your own life -- now and every day. Jesus never fails. Never. Stand in the offering plate.