You Didn’t Come This Far To Stop Here

• Jesus often waits for his disciples response before he performed miracles. In the Bible, the Bible tells us that when he came walking on the water in Mark the sixth chapter, when he came walking on the water, the scripture said that the storm was raging and the disciples were perishing and suddenly Jesus comes walking on the water and then there’s this little phase and he phrase that says and he would have passed them by.
• I I I marvel at that that he would have passed them by, but they compelled him. They begin to cry out. They begin to say, “Lord, please come.” He would have passed them by and and they begin to cry out to him. And when they begin to cry out to him, he turned and came back to them, got on their boat, and delivered them. And the scripture said because they decided that they couldn’t let him pass by without having an urgency and a passion to cry out for him that Jesus came to them and he went to them in the ship.
• The wind ceased and they were amazed and wondered. I want you to get the point that it wasn’t until they went he tested them. He was he would have passed them by and they were in a storm and he knew how bad they needed his help but he was testing them. Will they go a little further and cry out to me? And then I I think it’s important to remember the story of blind Barnameus.
• The Bible says in Mark chapter 10, it’s to it says that Jesus entered in to Jericho, but nobody cried out, nobody reached out, nobody went further than just being in his presence. You can be in his presence, but it wasn’t until you go a little further that miracles began to happen for people’s lives.
• They were in his presence. He came into Jericho. He walked through Jericho. And we have no account of one person being healed, helped or ministered to by Jesus. Even though his presence was there, no one cried out. No one reached. No one threw a stone a little bit further. It was It’s not far.
• But sometimes Jesus test us to see, do you have desire? Do you have the hunger? Are you willing to reach out beyond just where you normally go and get? Because please understand they were in the garden to pray. But just because you’re in the place of prayer doesn’t mean you’re praying. Just because you’re in the place of worship doesn’t mean you’re worshiping.
• They were there in the place very comfortable. But he went a little further. And we ought to follow Jesus wherever he goes beyond our comfort zone. And then the scripture said after he went into Jericho, no one cried out. After walked through Jericho, no one reaching, no one asking, “Pray for my son, pray for my daughter, set me free, heal me, no one.
• ” He gets on the other side outside of the city of Jericho. And there’s a blind man named blind Barnameus. And he starts crying out with a loud voice, “Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.” And the disciples said, “Don’t bother the master.” And he cried the louder, “Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.” Now, what did he do? He went a little further than anybody did.
• He, the miracle worker, just walked through the whole city and not one person healed. And here’s a blind man. And he went a little further than anyone else. And Jesus healed his blinded eyes. Two men were walking on the road to Emmas after Jesus rose from the dead. And Jesus joined himself to them. This is found in the book of Luke chapter 24.