It was not by His mighty word
When He commanded light to shine
But by a gentle prayer of thanks
That He blessed bread and wine
And He who made the storm to sleep
Chose the price of sin to pay
He showed in His surrendering
That He would not run away
Then when nails pierced hands and feet
And His fate on earth was sealed
We were not saved by mighty words
But By His wounds, we’re healed
Not By His Mighty Word
by Peter Caligiuri
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And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Mark 10:47 NKJV
As Jesus began His final journey towards Jerusalem, a blind man named Bartimaeus hears the news and in desperation cries to Him for help. Breaking the decorum of his day, he started to shout as loudly as possible, trying to get Jesus’ attention, no matter what anyone else thought.
During His ministry on earth, Jesus had healed all kinds of people. In one of His earliest acts, he healed the mother of the Apostle Peter’s wife, later, the servant of a local government official and then woman who touched his robe in a crowd. Finally as He neared the end of His time on earth; He raised His friend Lazarus from the dead. But in this last miraculous act recorded in the Bible, Jesus paused to heal a bind beggar named Bartimaeus. This blind man had no special credentials or connections except that Jesus was passing by. That amazing hope which He found is also for anyone who has no pedigree, political connections, or friends in high places. The mercy of Jesus comes only with the requirement that, like Bartimaeus, we ask with all our heart. Jesus is as willing to stop for a jailer as for a prisoner. He hears the prayer of the surgeon as well as the patient. He bends his ear as closely to hear orphans as he does to the father of a nation. Our hope in Jesus Christ is based on one thing alone. He died for our sins and rose again. He is walking down our street, and He is still inviting beggars to come to His side in His heavenly home!
Anyone wanting to serve in nursing home ministry would do well, to consider finding a team to do that ministry with. Lone ranger types of service are fine if no one else is available, but the biblical example is always teamwork. Jesus called twelve disciples; He sent them out two by two and when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He brought three of them with Him. We have a wonderful team that has been helping at Life Care for a few years, who sometimes share their testimonies, and last week our friend Gena shared hers. Everyone at the home knows and loves Gena as she has been volunteering there for over a year. She comes in about three days a week for a few hours and spends time visiting, encouraging and praying with the residents. Then, when we have our Friday morning service, Gena passes out songbooks, opens in prayer and serves communion. So, when she went through a heart procedure last week, and her daughter experienced a seizure everyone was praying for her as they would for a family member. I hope you will be blessed as you listen to her special message of how God brought them both through.
"So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another." Romans 12:5 ESV
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