Topic: Partnership With God
Text: John 5:1-9

Today, I want you to understand the full important of partnership with God. When God enters into partnership with you, He enters into commitment to supply everything you will ever need. When God decides to help you, He will help you all the way. He will not stop until He has finished the job. If God is uninterested in your case, He will not interfere at all.

In John 13:1, the Bible tells us that Jesus loved His own till the very end. “Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.” Once Jesus Christ decides to become your friend, He will be your friend forever. David knew this and that was why he said goodness and mercy should follow him all the days of his life (Psalms 23:6).

Paul also said in Philippians 1:6 that: “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” The One who has decided to be merciful to you will surely fulfill His promise. He was merciful with Lot who dragged his feet and lingered in getting out of Sodom and Gomorrah, even after knowing that the city was to be destroyed. God is ready to give you a miracle, but you must stretch out your hands to receive it.

The implication here is that God will provide the food but you must dot the cooking. That which you cannot do, God has already done it. That which is your own part to do, God will leave to you. He will always tell you to rise up, take your bed and go home, just as He said to the man by the pool of Bethesda in our text. God provided the miracle for the man, but he had to get up and go home. If he had waited for Jesus to pick him up, he would have not got his miracle.

Do you know that some of your miracles are lying unclaimed in God’s storehouse simply because you have not played your part? God is faithful that once you begin to play your own part today, you will begin to reap a harvest of miracles.

Memory Verse: Philippians 1:6 - “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”