Women Empowering Women Magazine Women Emowering Women Magazine Spring 2015 Issue | Page 7

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I

’m often

in me and this season My Father was going to get

fascinated with

me just where I needed to be….WHOLE!

the questions the
Holy Spirit asks
me, I guess it’s

because He already
knows the answer, and

I was reminded that this was the same question
Jesus asked the invalid man who sat by the pool of
Bethsaida for many years; he had been ill for 38
years and would always go to the pool waiting for

someone to put him in it so he could be healed.

He uses the questions to bring me back into focus.
The whole idea about the pool is that an angel
As I was pondering on what I’m to write for our
Spring Special Issue, I wasn’t sure what the readers
needed to hear or be inspired by and if you’re
anything like me I’m sure there’s no point trying to

would go down to pool at a certain time and stir up
the water, then whoever stepped in first, after the
stirring of the water, was made well of whatever
disease they had.

inspire others with false words or notions when
you have nothing to say.

Due to this man’s issue, it was impossible for him to
go into the pool by himself, so he would wait by the

A couple of days back, as I settled down to my

morning devotion….ahhh, I appreciated the pure

pool hoping that someone would take pity on him

and help him into it so he would be healed.

quietness in our home. The kids were at school and
all I could hear was the clock in the hallway, ticking

Of course, Jesus comes along and finds this man by

away. It was sheer peace and tranquillity and I was

the pool, waiting and He asks the man…Do you

going to make sure I received something from my

want to be made well? The sick man responds by

Father before I made my way to church for my

saying he has no one to put him into the pool when

Friday discipleship teaching with the women in the

the water is stirred and while he is making his way

group.

hoping that this would be his lucky day, someone
else steps into the pool to receive their healing.

As soon as I settled into the Word of God to see
what God had for me, I heard the question……Do

As I ponder on the m