08/25/2026
“I Feel Stuck”
Submitting to the Spiritual Discipline of Surrender.
John 5:1-9
“After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.”
Sticky Proverb: You can’t change where you have been, but you can change where you’re going.
1. FACE WHERE YOU ARE
You can’t move forward from a reality you refuse to acknowledge.
2. FILTER WHAT YOU CAN’T CONTROL
Stop spending today’s strength fighting yesterday’s struggle.
3. FORWARD IS STILL AVAILABLE
You don’t need yesterday to change for God to give you new direction today.
