Streams of Joy Daily Devotional August 13, 2025 Message Written By Pastor Jerry Eze
Streams of Joy Wednesday August 13, 2025 Daily Devotional Message
TOPIC: Rise
SCRIPTURE READING: John 5: 1-14 (KJV)
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
FOCUS VERSE:
8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.(John 5: 8)
Streams of Joy Daily Devotional 13th August 2025 MESSAGE:
In our Focal Scripture, Jesus instructed the man at the pool of Bethesda to rise. That man had been in a posture on account of his condition. He had been lying down in Bethesda. In verse 3 of our Scripture Reading, mention was made of how multitudes ‘lay’ at Bethesda. Jesus showed up, and instructed the man to rise from the prevailing posture in Bethesda. Jesus commanded the man to rise from where his affliction kept him.
Friend, in this season, rise from your Bethesda. Rise from where affliction kept you. Rise from whatever posture that your challenges have given you. Rise from every negative posture that your struggles have given you. Rise from every posture that you have taken on as a result of what you have been through. Rise from every posture that makes you look like what you have been through. Rise from every posture that confines you.
Jesus came with the offer of a new season for that man at Bethesda, but He required that the man should leave the posture given him by his predicament. You will not arrive at your new season by remaining fixated on your old season. You will not enter your new season by wearing the garment of your old season. You will not transit into the new by remaining stuck with the wrong behaviors of your old season.
I pray for you: receive grace to rise from wherever you are down. Receive grace to rise from your past errors. Receive grace to rise from the places where life’s experiences put you down. Receive grace to rise from wherever you are already down. Receive grace to rise where you kept yourself down. It is also important that you intentionally counsel yourself not to remain down, no matter what or who put you down.
Welcome to that season where you must arise all by yourself. Welcome to that season where the posture of your old season is not allowed.
Ephesians 5: 14 says: “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
DECLARATION: I arise from the posture of the old; I will not stay down, in Jesus’ name!
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