Series: HEAL YOUR HURTING MIND
Message #3: What’s Holding You Back?
Text: John 5:1-9 NIV
Pastor Tom Cogle
Sunday, May 3, 2026
- Salvation is instant, but healing takes time.
- A hurting mind isn’t a broken mind; it’s healing in
progress. - Jesus asks you to meet His grace with your faith.
1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the
Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the
Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and
which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a
great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the
lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an
invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying
there and learned that he had been in this condition for a
long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,”
the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool
when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in,
someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said
to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the
man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
John 5:1-9 NIV
Bethesda
House of Grace
Do you want to get well?
(See Other Side)
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the
pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in,
someone else goes down ahead of me.” John 5:7 NIV
What you resist the hardest
is often what you need the most.
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and
walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat
and walked. John 5:8-9 NIV
Your faith speaks louder than facts.
Do what you can, and trust God to do what you can’t.
TALK IT OVER
Have you ever let facts about your health speak louder than
your faith? How have you learned to balance both truths?
Read John 5:6-9. If Jesus walked in right now and asked,
“Do you want to be well?,” how would you respond? What
next steps would you take?
Who do you call when you need help taking the next step in
faith? What about that person makes you want to reach
out?