He Who Hesitates…
“But Brother Copeland,” someone might say, “when Bartimaeus got his miracle, Jesus was literally, physically standing there in front of him. For us today that’s not the case.”
I know it. But it wasn’t the case for the Apostle Paul, either, and he saw the same kind of miracles in his ministry. One in particular comes to mind. It happened one time when he and Barnabas traveled to the city of Lystra. As Acts 14 says: “And there they preached the gospel. And there sat a certain man…impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked” (verses 7-10).
If you study out that miracle, you’ll see it unfolded much like Bartimaeus’ did.
First, the lame man heard the gospel. What gospel? “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38).
Second, he believed what he heard and—even before anything changed in his body—he had the faith he needed to be healed.
Third, when the strategic moment arrived, he pulled the trigger on that faith. Paul told him to stand up on his feet and, though he was still sitting there as lame as he’d ever been, he jumped up. He obeyed the faith command and, in the blink of an eye, he wasn’t just walking, he was dancing.
It was a wonderful miracle, no question about it. But let me ask you something. What would have happened if that man had hesitated? What if he’d just shrugged his shoulders and said, “Well, I don’t think I can do it, but if you’ll help me, I’m willing to try.”
The ending of that story would have been completely different. The devil would have captured the man’s mind during those moments of hesitation and gotten it off The WORD. His faith level would have begun to wane; and when the meeting was over he would have still been crippled.
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