Exceptional Help

Thursday 15 October
READ: Jn.5:1-15
MORE LESSON: Mark 9:17-27

Exceptional help refers to God reaching out to do what is beyond man’s ability. It is God doing beyond your limits, that is God by-passing your limitations to help you. In the story of the man at the pool of Bethesda, there were a lot of helpless and impotent people who waited for angelic visitation to stir the pool, and the first man to jump in got healed. Jesus came around one day and singled out a man for exceptional help. This man had been sick for 38 years and every attempt to jump into the pool ahead of others proved abortive until Jesus passed his way and gave him exceptional help. Jesus by-passed his limitation and reached out to him. The man was still struggling to explain why he was still sick and down, but Jesus just interrupted and asked him whether he wanted to be made whole. Then He told the man to take up his bed and walk, and immediately the man was made whole.

God can still do the same in your life. He will by-pass your limitations and struggles and give you help that will baffle others. Exceptional help does not only deal with acquiring material things; it also deals with the intangible issues such as demonic dirt that stick on to one. In Mark 1:21-26 there was a man who attended meetings at the synagogue yet an unclean spirit was troubling him. One day he sat down, clothed and looking good but under the control of an unclean spirit, and suddenly exceptional help came his way. As Jesus was speaking the Word with authority, the unclean spirit cried out and was cast out that same day. The man went home light, having received exceptional help from the Lord.

Concerning whatever is troubling you which cannot be seen on your face, but is a nuisance to your life, I declare you a candidate of exceptional help today. Jesus will reach out to you and deal with every parasite that has stuck to you and is draining your goodness.

To enjoy exceptional help, you must do the following things:

i. Position yourself for the touch of God in the same way the two people cited above positioned themselves where Jesus could reach out to them. Cease from hiding from church meetings and complaining; arise and go to where He will be able to reach out to you.

ii. Focus on Jesus as the giver of exceptional help and stop saying, “I have no man”. Human connection or not, God will lift you up by His exceptional help.

Exceptional help is also the “kindness of God” to a helpless man as seen from Mephibosheth’s experience in II Sam.9:3. By exceptional help he got back lost wealth in the same way the widow and her sons in II kings 4:1 cleared her debt.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, I am a candidate for exceptional help today; reach out to me Father as I look up to You .
* I position myself for the help from the Lord today and I will not miss it.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
The blood of Jesus speaks for me today, so every evil must pass over me, in the name of Jesus.