The Call. Get Up And Walk..........

The call. Get up and walk..........

Good Morning

Stand with me and lift up your bible and repeat after me.

This is my Bible.

I am what it says I am.

I can do what it says I can do.

I am going to learn how to be what it says I can be.

Today I will learn more of the word of God.

The indestructible, never ending, living word Of God.

I will never be the same.

I will never be the same.

In Jesus Name

Open your bibles to John Chapter 5 and say, “Amen” when you are there.

Let’s read from verse number 3 to verse number 8.

John 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.

John 5:4 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.

John 5:5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

John 5:6 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?”

John 5:7 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.”

John 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”

Sometimes we just need that little push to get started and believe in ourselves. Each of us has a purpose in life and the hard part is we let life take charge. Not our purpose.

With the way life moves along at a fast pace here on planet Earth, time goes by and we have missed out on things that we should have done.

Let me share a story. Some of you may have heard this before.

The Candy Cane

A candy maker wanted to make a candy that would be a witness of God’s love, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane.

He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.

He began with a stick of pure white hard candy. White to symbolize the

Virgin birth and the sinless nature of Jesus, and hard to symbolize the

Solid Rock, the foundation of the Church, and the firmness of the promises

of God.

The candy maker made the candy in the form of a "J" to represent the precious name of Jesus, who came to earth as our Savior.

It could also represent the staff of the "Good Shepherd" with which He reaches down into the ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs who,

like all sheep, have gone astray.

Thinking that the candy was somewhat plain, the candy maker stained it with red stripes.

He used three small stripes to show the stripes of the scourging Jesus received by which we are healed.

The large red stripe was for the blood shed by Christ on the cross so that we could have the promise of eternal life.

Unfortunately, the candy became known as the Candy Cane, a meaningless decoration seen at Christmas time.

But the meaning is still there for those who "have eyes to see and ears to hear."

Are we seeing and hearing what God is telling us?

We get so caught up with everything in our lives we miss out on the simple things and change our priorities to meet those needs instead of what God would like us to do.

Did you hear that?

What God would like us to do. Not what He makes us do.

But what He would like us to do. We have free will to;

“Love one another.”

I have been a patient before at a hospital and you might have been also. There are many people that require the help of a hospital because of health reasons in their lives. Did you notice that everyone that either is a patient or is a blessing and works there have several things in common?

They all breath air and they all bleed red.

They may be tall or short, thin or not, light skin color or darker.

There is no real black or white. They have all been created in God’s image.

Did you hear me?

We all have been made in His Image.

But does everyone follow Him? Do they follow the call?

Do they love one another?

Each one of us has a calling on our lives and that calling is not what you may think.

It is not one where God said, “You be a doctor, you be a teacher, or you own a bank.”