If you would like to extend this over a week, you can easily do one of the points each day of your devotion.  Here is a printable version.

Miracles of Jesus
Poolside Miracle
Devotion
 
4-3-22
 
Question: Do you know anybody who is looking for a quick fix in life? If so, what are they looking for?
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Read:
 
John 5:1-6 - Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesada and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.  5 One who was there had been an invalid for 38 years.6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be well.” 
 
Question: Why do you think Jesus asked, “Do you want to be well?”
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Question: Are there areas of your life that you wanted to change but now have grown comfortable with it? 
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Question: Are there any areas of your life that Jesus is asking if you want to be well?
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JESUS OFFERS A CHANCE TO CHANGE
 
Exodus 15:26 - For I am the Lord, who heals you.  

Jehovah Rapha – The Lord our Healer
 
 
Question: What are some other ways people try to find healing other than God?
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1. HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD?

 
John 5:7 - Sir, the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred.  While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.  

Question: Why do you think He used all the personal pronouns?
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Psalm 33:6,7,9 - By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea into jars…9 For he spoke, and it came to be….  
 
Question: What does Psalms tell us about the God we worship?
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Col 1:15-17 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
 
Question: What does it tell us about God’s control of the universe?
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GOD IS BIGGER THAN YOUR PROBLEM
 
2. WHAT IS GOD TELLING YOU TO DO?
 
John 5:8-9 - Then Jesus said to him, Get up!  Pick up your mat and walk. 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked…   

Question: Is God telling you to do anything?
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OBEDIENCE PRECEDES THE MIRACULOUS

Question: Why do you think obedience precedes the miraculous?
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Exodus 3:5 - Take off your sandals…                        

Genesis 6:14 - Make yourself an ark…                      

2 Kings 5:10 - Dip seven times…                  

Matthew 14:29 - Come…  

John 9:7 - Go wash off the mud…                  

John 10:27 - My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 

Question: What do you think John 10:27 means?
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2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 

Question: What might be stopping you from living like a new creation in Christ?
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