Are you struggling? Feeling stuck? This video EXPOSES an ancient prophecy about HEALING WATERS that will CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER! 🙌

In this mind-blowing Biblical breakdown, we dive deep into:

• The INCREDIBLE vision of living waters from Ezekiel
• The MIRACULOUS healing at the Pool of Bethesda
• Why WAITING isn’t always the answer to your breakthrough

GUARANTEED to give you HOPE, INSPIRATION, and a FRESH PERSPECTIVE on healing and faith!

Our readings today are:

• Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12
• Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
• John 5:1-16

The Man By the Pool: A Story of Unexpected Mercy

Imagine Jerusalem. Not the peaceful, sanitized version from postcards, but a city crackling with tension. Roman soldiers patrolling the streets. Religious leaders watching every move. Survival is a daily negotiation.

At the Sheep Gate, there’s a pool called Bethesda. In Hebrew, the name means “House of Mercy.” But mercy is in short supply here. Five porticoes surrounding a pool where the desperate gather—the blind, the lame, the crippled. A human warehouse of human suffering.

And in the middle of this broken landscape, one man. Thirty-eight years. Thirty-eight years of watching others get healed. Thirty-eight years of being passed over, forgotten, invisible.

In the ancient world, chronic illness was more than a medical condition. It was a social death sentence. No work. No family. No community. Just a mat by a pool, watching life happen to everyone else.

Jesus sees him. Not just looks at him. Sees him.

“Do you want to be well?”

Such a simple question. But loaded with more complexity than it appears.

The man doesn’t even answer directly. Instead, he reveals his deepest pain: “I have no one to help me.” In a culture where community was everything, his isolation is his real disability.

Jesus doesn’t offer sympathy. He offers transformation. “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”

And just like that—healing happens.

But here’s where the story gets complicated. It’s the Sabbath. In Jewish law, carrying a mat is considered work. And work on the Sabbath? Strictly forbidden.

The religious leaders don’t celebrate the miracle. They attack. “It’s not lawful to carry your mat.”

Jesus is deliberately challenging their understanding of religious law. Mercy trumps ritual. Healing matters more than rules.

This connects powerfully to Ezekiel’s vision of the temple waters. A tiny trickle becoming a massive, life-giving river. Healing that starts small and transforms everything it touches.

The Psalm resonates with this theme: “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in distress.”

Today, we’re still fighting those same battles. Systems that prioritize rules over people. Institutions that maintain order at the expense of compassion. Structures that keep people on the margins.

Lent invites us to look deeper. To see the “Bethesda pools” in our own lives. Where are we stuck? Where have we been waiting for someone to help us?

Three invitations for your journey:

1. Where do you need healing that goes beyond the physical?
2. What “mats” are you being asked to pick up?
3. How might mercy be calling you to break some rules?

The man by the pool didn’t just get healed. He got his life back.

And you? Your transformation might be just one unexpected encounter away.