Mark 2:2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.
To know that you are deeply, fiercely loved by the Creator of the universe even when you don’t feel like you have any value, to know that God is making a way in your wilderness, even when you can’t fathom any way out, these are important and powerful truths. So when I offer to pray for or with someone, these are the primary things I want to remind them: 1. God loves you. Period. Full stop. 2. He is in control. Even now. 3. He’s making a way, a perfect way through whatever wilderness you are facing, even if you can’t yet perceive it.
Mark 2:3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.
Saying that I’ll pray for someone is a promise I take very seriously. My sisters and I call it “praying you through,” and I’ve seen the power of prayers for others more than once, and I know that when I’m at the end of myself, the end of my faith, just knowing that others are lifting me up, praying me through, is incredibly powerful.
Mark 2:4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.
Lord, Thank You for the power of prayer and for the ability to lift each other up to You in prayer. Thank You that the ability to pray each other through the trials of life is one more way that we can glorify You and encourage each other in this life. Help us never to forget the power of prayer. Amen.
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Have a blessed day.