​Love sent Jesus to purchase our healing; that love flow is full of healing power.  Jesus is looking for a place to manifest His healing power.

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There was a man among many who lay at the pool of Bethesda who had an infirmity for 38 years. At certain times an angel would come and stir the water with healing power and the first one to get down into the pool would be healed by this healing power. It seems that there was only enough power for one person. (John Chapter 5)

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Jesus came by the sheep gate where this pool was. There were many sick folk living at this pool because they didn’t know when the angel would come.  Jesus approached the man with the infirmity for 38 years.  He asked him if he was sincere about getting healed. The man explained that he was not able to get into the pool quick enough, others always got down into the pool before him.  Jesus then said, “Rise, take up thy bed and walk” and the man did.

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In verse 14 we read,  Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

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It’s important where you go after you receive healing. It matters what you view important. This man was in the temple after he got healed. He was not just healed; he was made whole—a completed work. Jesus told him to sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon him.  What we receive by faith, ours or the faith of others, does not empower us to keep what we’ve received from God. We can see here that this man’s faith was not involved in his healing. He was healed by the Spiritual gift of faith and the Working of Miracles. (I Corinthians 12:9)

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Jesus was instructing Him on how to keep his wholeness. In order to keep your healing from being stolen, you must tend to your lifestyle. You cannot remain in a lifestyle of practicing sin and think you are going to live whole; because there is a thief that comes to steal, kill and destroy; therefore, we have to know how to keep what we’ve received from God. Jesus was instructing this man on how to remain whole. (John 10:10)

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If we step away from the flow that brought us healing, we put ourselves at risk—the enemy is looking for the opportunity to steal from you everything that God has given you.

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The way we keep from being robbed from is “Go and sin no more” to keep a worse thing from coming upon us. If you’re a smoker and God healed your heart, you’re going to need to ‘sin no more’ otherwise you leave the door open for that sickness to come back but it will come back even worse. If you are outside of the plan of God for life . . . maybe God called you to go to the mission field but you told Him no. In order to keep your healing you’re going to have to make that adjustment.

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If we miss it; we are acting in less than love, treating spiritual things casual etc. In that case we acknowledge our wrong, repent to God, forgive ourselves and then the blood of Jesus cleanses us.  (I John 1:9)

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We don’t become sinners just because we miss it. When we became born again, old things which include the sin nature, sickness and disease have passed away and all things became new.

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One sin committed is not going to cause you to lose your healing any more than it will cause you to lose your salvation.  Jesus was talking about not going into or persisting in a lifestyle of sin. When we miss it—sin, the quicker we repent the less time we give the enemy an open door into our lives. 

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Sin opens the door to the enemy; it puts us on the devil’s territory. Once we are on the devil’s territory he can steal from us. (John 10:10) God wants our whole lives blessed not just to be healed but to be whole.

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When you sin, that doesn’t make you a sinner needing to be saved again.  When you sin, that does not bring back the sin nature from which we’ve been redeemed. (Romans 8:2)

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We have directions here on what to do if we sin. . .

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I John 1:9
     If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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If we confess our sins, in other words, we acknowledge the sin—call it out, we can be forgiven as though we never sinned. Some don’t treat their wrong as sin. They think they just missed it but sin is sin. You have to deal with that differently than just tripping on a rug so-to-speak. Tripping on a rug is not a sin but it is a miss. We also know this passage is not talking to the unbelievers because they could never remember all of their sins to confess.  This passage is for the believer and aren’t you glad . . .? If we miss it, we repent of that sin and He is faithful to forgive and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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This word righteousness means to be right with God. When we sin we are not right with God. Sin separates us from our fellowship with God. Sin is a clog in our pipeline of faith. If we do not confess our sin, our pipeline of faith to receive gets clogged with unconfessed sin, offense, worry, bitterness, unbelief etc.,  these collect as debris in the pipeline of faith. The power of God is then hindered in bringing us the supply that we need. God never withholds power but those things we let get in the way blocks it from reaching us.

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Once we confess our sins and repent, we are restored to righteousness. There is now nothing in between us and God. The blood of Jesus annihilates that sin and its effects. The blood of Jesus gets rid of it. Once we are cleansed we can, again, receive from God.

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You don’t have to linger with the suffering of the sin just to prove you’re sorry. Jesus made us righteous so we don’t have to have any sense of unrighteousness.

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Have a great week everyone and remember that Jesus is coming soon!!!