Entering Into A Season Of Divine Celebration

The difference between people in Hannah’s situation and people in the kind of situation this man at the pool of Bethesda was in is that for those in Hannah’s situation, they don’t know what it feels like to get pregnant, to be close to your day of delivery, and then somewhere along the line, something happens and the pregnancy is terminated. They don’t know what it feels like to be in a relationship and just as you are about to get married, something happens and the relationship is called off. Or for some people they even go into the delivery room but come out with a stillbirth. Hannah’s womb had been shut by God (1 Samuel 1:6) so Hannah didn’t know this kind of pain. Her pain was the pain of never taking in. The pain of the man at the pool and others in this kind of situation is being so close to your breakthrough and just as it is about to be delivered into your hand, just as you are about to marry that person, get that contract, get that job, have that child, receive that healing or deliverance, something happens and your blessing is diverted, it passes over your head.

Do you know what Jesus did for that man that day? Jesus came to the exact spot where those healings, blessing and miracles had been passing over his head for years. Jesus came that day to see how this man’s healing could be diverted when the Mighty Man in battle, the Lord Strong and Mighty, the King of Glory is standing right by his side. By the mere presence of Jesus on the scene that day, it was impossible for the man’s healing to pass over his head.

It’s just like a boy who comes home from school the first day crying to his father that some boys beat him at school. The first day the father says “son, don’t cry, be strong”. The boy goes back to school the next day and the next day the same thing happens. The second day again the father encourages his son, “don’t cry, be strong”. This goes on till the third day. The fourth day, the father decides to show up at his son’s school. By the mere presence of the father at his son’s school, do you think any of the boys that had been beating up that young boy would be able to do anything to him? Certainly not! Seeing the father alone, those boys will run away or go into hiding. This was what happened to the man at the pool. Seeing Jesus alone, all the forces and powers of darkness that had been diverting his healing gave way. All strongholds in that man’s life gave way because of the presence of Jesus in his life (Psalm 18:45). Jesus came to the spot where this man had missed so many blessings to personally give him the healing, blessing and miracles that had been passing over the man’s head for years. Today, the Lord will show up for you and personally give you that blessing and testimony that has eluded you for years and your season of celebration will begin today.

4. The fourth and final thing that can make a person enter into a season of divine celebration is genuine repentance and restoration