The Bible says Jesus performed thirty-seven miracles. We will discuss one miracle each day.
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Jesus Walks on Water
Enjoy this beautiful film: Jesus walks on water (3:33 mins).
[video=youtube;zdH2TgTJDXE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdH2TgTJDXE[/video]
I am looking at the fifth miracle, which is the miracle of Jesus walking on water. This is recorded in Matthew chapter 14, verses 22-33.
You can listen to the actor David Suchet narrating the story of Jesus walking on water, and read along as you listen, by clicking on the links at the bottom of the this post.
After feeding the five thousand people, Jesus told His disciples to get in the boat and go to the other side of the lake. Jesus then went up the mountainside to pray.
Jesus knew the boat had not yet reached the other side of the lake, so He walked across the lake to meet the boat. His disciples saw Him walking on water and they were full of fear, imagining Him to be a ghost.
Jesus told them not to be afraid and revealed to them who He was. Peter, doubting, said if it is You Lord, then ask me to come to You. Jesus bid Peter to come to Him.
So Peter climbed out of the boat and he walked on the water. Then he was afraid of the wind, and he started to fall under the water.
He cried out to Jesus: "Save me Lord!" Jesus stretched out His hand and pulled Peter up from the water. They got into the boat and the disciples said He was the Son of God and worshipped Him.
Fast forward to 2 mins 33 secs and listen the actor David Suchet narrating the story of Jesus walking on water:
https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/suchet/nivuk/Mat.14
Read along from Matthew Chapter 14 verses 22-33 as you listen to the narration of Jesus walking on water:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 14:22-33
Jesus walks on water; commentary by Mark G. Vitalis
https://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=985
When we keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus we are not afraid, but when our eyes look at other things, then fear can fill our hearts in the same way fear filled Peter's heart, and he began to sink into the waters, and we start to sink into our problems.
Like Peter, when we are afraid we can cry out: Jesus save me, and we can trust, He will stretch out His hand towards us. He will take our hand and lift us up. He will lead us to a safe place where we can worship Him and rest in complete assurance, knowing we are with the One who created us; our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
When I was reading the story of Peter sinking beneath the waters, I remembered Jonah who sank beneath the ocean, and the large fish swallowed him.
Jonah's Prayer
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. He said:
'In my distress I called to the Lord and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and You listened to my cry. You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me. Jonah 2:1-3
Healing of the Government Official's Son
I am looking at the Healing of the Government Official's Son which is recorded in John chapter 4, verses 43-54.
A government official's son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
We read in verse 49 the Government Official said to Jesus:
"Sir, come down before my child dies."
Jesus said to him: "Go, your son will live."
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. He met his servants on his journey home who told him his son was alive. He asked his servants what time his son got better, and the servants said yesterday at 1 o'clock the fever left him.
The father realised that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, 'Your son will live.' So he and his whole household believed.
This was the second miracle Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
Enjoy this beautiful film clip (2:38 mins) of Jesus healing the Government Official's Son. I don't know the name of the film from which this clip was taken, but perhaps someone will recognise it? The narrator speaks with a wonderful English accent, as do the actors. I would be interested to know who the narrator was and who played the role of Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlICGbIspk
You can listen to a beautiful dramatised narration of the healing of the Government Official's Son, and read along as you listen, by clicking on the links at the bottom of the this post.
Fast forward to 4 mins 48 secs and listen to a beautiful dramatised narration of the Healing of the Government Official's Son here:
https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/d...zed/niv/John.4
Read along from John Chapter 4 verses 43-54 as you listen to the narration of the healing of the Government Official's Son here:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...ge/?st=4
Shiny
This shows that Jesus does not have to see the sick.
Jesus just has to say the word and it is done.
.The Healing of the Man at the Pool
I am looking at The Healing of the man at the Pool which is recorded in John chapter 5, verses 1-14.
Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. There is a pool near the sheep gate called Bethesada, where a great number of disabled people used to liethe blind, the lame, the paralysed. There was a man lying there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.
In verse six we read: "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 get well?'"
The man desired to be healed.
Then Jesus said to him, 'Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.' At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. (v.8-9)
This was the third miracle Jesus performed.
Enjoy this beautiful film clip (2:23 mins) of the healing of the man at the pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhirAYf29VE
Listen to a beautiful dramatised narration (1:44 mins) of the healing of the man at the pool:
https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/d...zed/niv/John.5
Read along from John Chapter 4 verses 1-14 as you listen to the narration of the healing of the man at the pool:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...+5&version=NIV
I have a personal story to share. One day my son told me he had no feeling in the left side of his body. Several doctors examined him, and he was given a brain scan and a lumbar puncture. It was a very worrying time indeed. His paralysis lasted several days, but gradually the feeling in the left side of his body returned. The doctors believed it was caused by a virus.
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Shiny
This is the healing at the pool at Bethesda of a man who had been sick for 38 years.
Jesus said, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5 verse 8