“Stop Sitting by the Pool: When Prayer Requires Movement”

“Stop Sitting by the Pool: When Prayer Requires Movement” is a convicting and encouraging message from John 5:1–9 that reminds us Jesus finishes what He starts but He invites us to move with Him. In this episode, Pastor Anthony Lucas walks through the story of the man at the Pool of Bethesda, exposing how easy it is to pray for change while refusing to take the steps God is calling us to take. Through Scripture, real‑life testimony, and practical application, you’ll be challenged to rise, pick up your mat, pivot when God redirects you, and walk into the life He’s prepared for you. Whether you’re stuck in fear, comfort, excuses, or hesitation, this message will help you take your next step of faith including the most important step of all: saying yes to Jesus for the very first time. What are we waiting for? Let’s do this.
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Hey, welcome back to On the Road with Pastor Anthony. And well, of course, I am your host, Pastor Anthony, and I'm super glad that you're here. Hey, before we get started, I would like to ask you to consider subscribing to the podcast on your favorite platform so that you never miss another episode. And if you enjoyed what you hear, give us a thumbs up and share the podcast with your friends. And by joining us each week, you will discover practical ways to live out your faith and uh connect with others as we share Jesus and life one mile at a time. Welcome back again as uh we dive into a subject this week. You know, this episode is you know probably gonna make some of you feel like I may be jumping on your toes, but I'm here to tell you I'm not. I'm aiming for your heart. This episode is going to be a little bit challenging, encouraging, teachable, and prayerfully remove some obstacles so that you can answer the call that's on your life. Today I want to start out to share a story about myself, and I'm sharing it because I want you to know that we're all in this together, and uh you're not alone, and this is not somebody, you know, one of those pastors like I'm sitting up here, I'm holy than now, I'm good, and I'm perfect, and all that. And you know, you just I'm not that at all. I look, I I'm just like you. I put my pants on one leg at a time, and you know, and I'm just me. Yeah, I tell people all the time, I'm just I'm just a West Virginia boy that God has called to preach the message, and I want to uh do that the best that I can. And I always wanted to be, you know, um humble enough to be able to share, hey, you know what? I do stupid stuff too. So um, and I can learn take my experiences and share them with you all uh to help you along your way as well. And that's one of the things my mentor, uh Pastor Mark, and you know when he was when I first started uh attending Genesis Fellowship, that one of the things that I really truly loved about his preaching style, because he would share his faults and the things that he's done, you know, that was you know kind of dumb. So I know when I do that, continue on with you know the way that he taught me as well. But anyhow, uh going into the story that I want to tell you, as most of you all know, and I've talked about it, I used to work at uh FedEx Freight, and um and I knew that you know in 2008 when I'd truly given my life to Christ and I'd gotten saved and baptized and you know really began to live for Christ. And then, you know, that uh early 2009 is you know, when it was that you know, I knew that God was calling me into the ministry. And I knew that uh then it was the the path forward was youth ministry, you know, it's something in pastoral. I didn't know what all that looked like at the time, you know. For me, it was becoming youth pastor, and I began you know that school of Christian studies that I was going to, and just the the desire to drive tractor trailer and do what I was doing become less and less. And I knew that God was going to remove me from this job eventually and and I was going to go move further into ministry, but the money there was fantastic, and I mean, you know, especially if I could run roadruns and and things like that, you know, I could really do very well. And uh, but at the same time, I began to pray for God to remove me, you know, from that situation because it was not uh things were not going well the way the company was being run, and so many changes coming at us. It just wasn't enjoying my time there. My focus was more on students and wanting to do the ministry, and it was taking up so much time. I was the crazy schedules and sometimes working midnights and just uh all the above. And so I began to pray about God, and I mean I begged Him to open the doors to get me away from FedEx. You know, I complained about it. I mean, I just every day I was miserable, and you know, but I wouldn't move. And you know, it was that fear of the unknown, fear of losing the money that I needed that I was going that I was making. Uh it's like I really don't know everything that was holding me back, but it was clearly I was looking back on it now, I was praying for God to remove me from the situation. He had opened doors, began to maneuver, and I even met with some people, and they were like, Have you tried this and done this? And you know, and I was like, No, I haven't tried that. And you know, by this time I was uh getting paid in youth ministry as a youth pastor, and you know, it wasn't a great uh, you know, a lot of money, it wasn't that, and uh, but it's never been really about the money, it's been about the call. But it wasn't until um God finally pushed me out, literally. I mean, I've got two scars, one on my right elbow and one on my right shoulder that remind me that you know God has dragged me out of a season season that I refuse to walk out of. And those scars still speak to me. And I show people often, I'm like, this is a reminder, you know. And I think about uh Joseph when he wrestled with God all night long and he touched his hip. So he walked the rest of his life with a limp. Uh, but it was God trying to get his attention to try to call, you know, to bring him to something. And we see this sometimes throughout scripture. But and that's what I tell people all the time that those two scars remind me that when God's call, you know, he calls, you answer, and then you move. And don't make him shove you, because he will if he's gotta. So let's pray together and then we'll we'll kind of jump into this. Father God, Lord, we just come to you this morning. And Father, you know, that story maybe uh has got some people's attention. Going, wait, what? If I don't listen to God, then he's gonna hurt me. Well, no, um, I don't look at it that way. Um, definitely an attention getter, and sometimes you have to use things to get our attentions um or allow things to come into our life. Not that you cause them, but you allow them because it's there's something better on the horizon that we need to uh realize. And so, Father, that's the message or you know, the prayer is today that this message is going to challenge and uh really get people's attention, Lord, and and maybe help them understand that uh sometimes when we sit still too long and things begin to happen in our lives that we can't quite understand and can't quite figure out when all along it's really you're allowing these things to come into our life because you can't get our attention any other way and you need us to move. So, Father, that's the message for today we that we want to look at and just attend. So our prayer is that you know this is uh you know will help someone, you know, because Lord, I know as I was preparing it, and this is some things that we've been dealing with over the past little bit, you know, uh just really trying to teach and learn and and actually you know be obedient. And so, Father, we ask your blessing upon the message in this episode today. Lord, continue to challenge us, open us, open our hearts and minds so that we may be receptive to what it is that you're trying to get uh through to us today. Lord, we love you in Jesus' name, amen. All right, so my you know that's my story, but I want to look at another uh example, and there's several throughout scripture that we could actually look at, but I want to talk about this one particular one about someone who prayed, they waited, they hoped, but they never moved. So if you're sitting still and you're not doing anything, and you want to jump in or look in the Bible with me, we're gonna be in John chapter 5, verses 1 through 9. And so I'd like to go ahead and read that again. That's John chapter 5, verses 1 through 9. And after this, there was a feast uh of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is in Hebrew called Bathshebon, having five porches, and in these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for moving of the water. For an angel went down at the pool at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water, then whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. Now a certain man there who had had an infirmity thirty-eight years, when Jesus saw him lying there, he knew that he had already been in the condition a long time, and he said to him, Do you want to be made well? And the sick man answered him, Sir, I have had no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. But while I am coming, another steps down before me. And Jesus said to him, Rise and take up your bed and walk. And immediately the man was made well, and he took up his bed and he walked. And that day was the Sabbath. So I want to take now, and now that we've read through the text, and may God add his blessing to the reading of his word, but we want to take and walk through this passage slowly. Want to kind of come back to it because every verse reveals something about how God moves and how uh we must move with him. Because not moving can keep us from a breakthrough. And uh, you know, and that can definitely, I mean, can hold us still and cause so many you know stress and uh just and things can really snowball out of control if if we're just standing still, not moving, and not doing what God has called us to do. So as we look through these first uh one verses one through five, you know, scripture tells us that uh Jesus went up to Jerusalem near the sheepgate. It was called you know that Beshidah, which really means house of mercy in the Greek. Around the pool, they lay a multitude of sick people. You know, there was lame, there's paralyzed, I mean, just people waiting for this, you know, that this water to stir. It says, I guess later the angel came and touched the water and it stirred up, and you know, then the people who had been sick would get in there and they were, you know, they were healed. And among them was this man who had been stuck in the same condition for 38 years. I mean, they say he was lame, he was an invalid, he couldn't move or he didn't have any use of his legs. But could you imagine being that close to a life-changing breakthrough and just sitting there, not doing anything, staying put, looking at it, right there's the breakthrough, right there within reach. But when we look at the ministry of Jesus, one thing that comes clear you know, Jesus was always moving, he moved from town to town, meeting people, teaching the truth, healing the broken, and wherever he went, lives changed because Jesus showed up. And when he called the disciples, they moved too. Some left their jobs. One walked away from the family fishing business and left the fathers there with their nets. And he's probably kind of like, man, this is like a modern teenager. You know, we give them, give them, give them, and then all of a sudden it leaves hiding dry and they're gone, doing their own thing. It's kind of like that, but you know, not quite like that. But you know, but I'm not saying that God is calling you to just drop everything. But what I'm really, I guess is what I'm asking is are we listening to God's direction of what he is wanting you to do? Because when we step into John chapter 5, you know, we find a man who who isn't wasn't listening, he wasn't moving, he wasn't responding, he was just setting in a place, you know, a house called mercy. I mean, he was there. But mercy is meaningless if you never respond to it. You can set in a place of mercy, sit in church, full of grace, sit under biblical preaching, and still never move. Some believers are spiritually paralyzed, not because God hasn't spoken, but but it's simply because, well, they haven't moved. They hear what God's telling them, they lay it down. Me, I know I was, you know, just like my story, I knew that God had called me into youth ministry. That was to be my focus, that was to be the direction that I was to be heading in. And I was taking those small steps. I mean, I was going to the School of Christian Studies, I was, you know, uh preaching uh or teaching the students, doing games, activities, trips. I mean, I was doing the stuff, but there was so much more that it needed to be involved that needed my attention, but yet I was spending 40 to 50 hours, you know, well, sometimes 60 hours a week driving truck, alternating my schedule, you know, wasn't available for the students like that. I needed to be. And so um, so my attention wasn't where it needed to be. It wasn't fully focused on the calling that God had called me. And I knew that that was the direction I was going, but yet I wasn't moving. Same thing we see here. You know, John uh 5.3 says he was lying among the multitude of sick people waiting for the water to move. He was in the right place, he was surrounded by the right people, close enough to healing, but spiritually and physically immobile. And I believe that many believers today set the same in the same fashion, close to a breakthrough, close to the calling, close to purpose, but stuck in comfort. And I know that feeling. You know, I was a FedEx freight. I mean, you know, a Fortune 500 company praying for God's will, but I wasn't moving forward. I was comfortable because the money was there, the stability was there, you know, everything about it felt comfortable. And I think that that was probably some of the deal with this guy at this laying here by this pool. Been there 38 years, he got used to the way things are, and so he wanted to change, or he spoke of the wanting to change, but in reality, he was just fine. He was, you know, he won wanted somebody to do it for him, maybe. You know, he was just comfortable there. Everything worked. I mean, how did he get food? How did he get water? You know, all this stuff. But yet he couldn't get just a few feet and get in this water. Same thing for me, praying for God's will, but I wasn't moving towards God's will. I was close to my calling, but I was stuck in comfort. You know, James 2.17 reminds us that faith without works is dead. And also in Proverbs uh 16:9 teaches us that God directs the steps, not stillness. So there is this man that's close to healing, close to breakthrough, close to change, but not moving. And Jesus doesn't start with a miracle, he starts with a simple question. A question that doesn't just expose the his condition, but also exposes his heart. And that question is found in that next section as we look through you know John chapter 5, but we'll look at verses 6, 7. And we're not going to hold 6-7. No, we don't want to do that. But John chapter 5, verses 6 and 7, we're going to be faced with the question, you know, are we making excuses? I mean, really, are we making excuses for why we're not moving? So let's look at this uh John chapter 5 and begin in verse 6. And we might even go through verse 8 and just kind of just talk about it because we see the excuses and how Jesus removes them so that we are left with the decision to either move or stay put and just continue to live life the way that we're living. And Jesus asked in John chapter 5, verse 6, it says, Do you want to be made well? And I think Jesus could have easily looked at him and went, dude, come on, man. What are you doing? I mean, you could have pulled yourself around the city 17 times on your hands in 38 years, but he doesn't do that, he doesn't ask to learn something, he asks to reveal something. And I love Jesus does that. He'll get a question to pop to us, and then we were like, wow, okay, we begin to think, and sometimes you know Jesus asked these questions not for his understanding, but to force our attention and our honesty, and then our response. So, what does that question look like for you right now in your life? Are you wrestling with a decision that you already know the answer to? In other words, what's your excuse? Because when you look closely at Jesus, at his question that he's asking, you realize it it wasn't about desire, it was about willingness. And in verse 7 shows us that clearly. In John chapter 5, verse 7, it says, I have no man, meaning someone, you know, that they always get uh someone always gets in ahead of me. So here's his excuse. He's like, I have no one, no one's gonna get me, no one will push me in the water. Instead of answering Jesus' question, he immediately comes up with excuses. He blames other people. And I mean, we we hear this today, we but he he's blaming people, he's blaming circumstances, circumstances, the timing, you know, the competition, the same patterns we all fall into do to today. It's always something else, but it's never us. And sometimes that's where we got to get through, you know, the noise, and really, you know, when Jesus asks those questions to make us reflect, ask those probing questions that you're like, wow, can't run for minutes anymore. And that's what Jesus is doing. He cuts through every excuse with a command, not a suggestion. I mean, because look what he said to our guy here laying by this pool. He says, Rise, take up your bed and walk. He's telling him to do something. He didn't go, well, you know, I'm sorry that you've had to go through all this. And you know, it's been I know it's been hard, but you know what? Today I'm here to help you. I'm gonna fix you. I'm just going, you know what, you're healed. Just whenever you feel like getting up, just you just go ahead. Okay. You just keep laying there and relax. No, that's not Jesus, like, okay, dude, we're tired of excuses. Get up out of there, take up your bed, and let's start walking. And this is and it's the movement here is where the miracle begins. I mean, because Jesus could have healed him. I mean, he could have just kept staying there and not even done anything. And this is where the message turns towards us. Jesus wasn't asking, Do you wish things were different? He was asking, are you ready to do what the healing requires? And that's the real issue. Are we making excuses? Because people say they want change, but not discomfort. They want the breakthrough, but not obedience, they want healing, but not responsibility. They want transformation, but not surrender. Jesus' question exposes the gap that we say that we want and what we're really actually willing to do. You know, I prayed for God to open a door, but I didn't want to walk through it. You know, that pastoral mentor that I meet with said that to me here recently. She's like, there are several cracked doors in front of you, but you're not moving. And I was like, oh, she got me. But sometimes I really wasn't even realizing it. It's like, how does that slip up on us? Because sometimes that does. And when we stay there too long, it just becomes so comfortable. And it's really, I mean, the point that we really need those accountability partners, those mentors, someone that can really call it out. But it took God really pushing me, you know, to the point where you know I got those scars to prove that I wasn't listening. Yeah, Isaiah 119 says, if you are willing and obedient, not just willing and not just and not just obedient, but both. If you're willing and obedient. So you can't just be one or the other. You got to be both. Yeah, one of my favorite scriptures, and I'm sure y'all probably heard me say it, Luke 9.23, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me. And if he truly, if we truly desire to follow Christ, to be his disciples, then we must deny the things in us that keep us stuck. Our fears, our lack of motivation, our excuses, our comfort, our self-will. You know, taking up our cross daily means denying to the version of life that we've built on our own terms, and then begin to let Jesus build something better. His plan for our lives is always greater than the minimum we settle for. And that and this brings us right back to Jesus' question in John 5.6. It forces us to confront something uncomfortable but necessary. Are we stuck because God hasn't moved or because we haven't? And that's why Jesus' question hits so hard. It exposes the excuses we've been carrying and the comfort we've been clinging to, and the places where we have stayed stuck for far too long. But here's the good news Jesus doesn't leave us in our excuses. He doesn't walk away from our hesitation, he doesn't abandon us on the mat we've been lying on. After exposing the excuse, Jesus gives a command. It's a call to action, a moment that he requires movement. And that brings us to the next part of the story because once Jesus reveals the excuse, he invites the man into obedience. And that's where everything changes. The moment where the miracles begin. So if we look at John chapter 5, 8 through 9 in this section here, we see that Jesus says to him, Rise up, take up your bed and walk. So Jesus, again, we want He doesn't respond to the man's excuses. He doesn't address his reasonings. He doesn't even acknowledge the obstacles the man listed. He goes straight to the heart of the issue with three simple commands. Rise and take up your bed and walk. And each of these commands, well, they matter. Rise and change your posture. Stop living like the person you were. Stop identifying with the mat that you've been lying on. Take up your bed and remove the option to return to what God has delivered you from. Don't leave your mat there as a backup plan. Walk, move forward into the life that God is calling you to. Healing isn't just about getting up, it's about moving into obedience. And Jesus didn't say think about it. He didn't say wait for the water. He didn't say, Well, let's talk about your situation. He said move. And then comes John 5 9. And immediately the man was made well and took up his bed and walked. The miracle didn't happen when Jesus spoke. The miracle. Jesus healed him. His legs were strong, but the man could have, like I said, you know, we mentioned earlier, he could have just laid there and still had excuses how he couldn't get up, and now no one was helping him. Instead of his healing was connected to his movement. The breakthrough was tied to his obedience. His transformation began the moment he stopped explaining or and started moving. You know, some of us are waiting for God to move when really God's waiting for us to move. Some of us are praying for change, but we're still lying on the same old mat, doing the same old thing, still complaining about the same old stuff. But some of us want God to open the door, but we haven't even taken a step, single step to it, and really haven't even put our hand on the doorknob yet. You know, again, I was mentioned, you know, I my mentor had told me that. You know, that I had those doors cracked open, but I still stand in there in the middle of the room and haven't moved in any direction. And sometimes we can allow fear and other circumstances to keep us from uh getting on, getting on along and beginning to move. But remember, the movement is where the miracles begin. Obedience is where the breakthrough starts. Faith is not just believing, but faith is stepping. Hebrews 11:8 says, By faith Abraham obeyed and he went out not knowing where he was going. Abraham didn't wait for clarity, he didn't wait for comfort, he didn't wait for everything to make sense. He moved because God spoke. His faith wasn't just belief, it was obedience and motion. And here's the truth: God often blesses the motion and not the hesitation. He directs steps, not stillness. He honors obedience, not excuses. The man at the pool didn't get healed because he understood everything. He got healed because he obeyed the one who spoke to him. And the same is true for us. If God is calling you to rise, then well, get up and go rise. If he's calling you to pick up something, then pick it up. If he's calling you to walk, yep, you guessed it. It's time to walk. And if your breakthrough may be waiting on the other side of your movement. The movement is where miracles begin. Obedience is where the breakthrough starts. Faith is not just believing, faith is stepping. You know, Abraham Lincoln once said, I walk slowly, but I never walk backwards. And how true is that statement? We always be moving forward. The heart, that's the heart of discipleship. You may not feel fast, you may not feel strong, you may not even feel ready. But if you're moving forward, even slowly, but you're still moving in the right direction. And that brings us to the point that Jesus doesn't just call us to walk, he walks with us and finishes what he starts. When Jesus healed the man, he didn't just give him strength to his legs, he gave him a new life. I mean, think about the possibilities now that he's not laying on a mat. You know, he can do all kinds of stuff that he never could do. It's a new life. John 5 14 shows Jesus finding him later in the temple, reminding him healing isn't just physical, but it's spiritual. And that's the heart of God. He doesn't just lift us up, he leads us forward. He doesn't just break changes, uh chains, he builds character. Philippians 1.6 reminds us he who has begun a good work in you will complete it. God doesn't start something he doesn't intend to finish, and he doesn't call you to move without giving you the strength to take the next step. And another one of my favorite verses, and you know, they've got a bunch of them, but Philippians 4.13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And this should be an encouragement to all of us. This means we can handle life, the good, the bad, the ugly, and you know, help us move forward in Christ with his strength, not ours. But let's face it, yep, sometimes we need to hear some encouragement to help us keep moving. And Charles Spurgeon once said, by perseverance, the snail reached the ark. It wasn't fast, wasn't flashy, but it moved, and that's all that mattered. And if you've ever seen the movie Finding Nemo, you may recall Dory, who gives one of the most simplest, you know, of the most encouraging lines ever. Just keep swimming, you know, kept going, kept moving forward. In other words, you know, just keep moving, keep stepping, keep trusting. And sometimes stepping means, you know, pivoting. That just that made me think of that uh show Friends, where Ross and all, you know, I remember who I was there, Chandler or whatever. They were trying to move a couch down the stairwells, and Ross kept yelling, pivot, pivot, pivot, you know, why treat, you know, trying to move that couch. You know, sometimes Jesus feels exactly like that. He calls us to pivot and move in a direction that he's called us to because, you know, hey, movement is where the miracles begin. We sometimes we got to change direction a little bit, but we got to be obedience, and that's where the breakthrough begins. Yeah, I want to reiterate, you know, that Hebrews 11:8, you know, shows us that Abraham, again, he went out, he you know, he obeyed. He he didn't know what God's plan was completely, God didn't reveal him everything, he just told him to go and he moved because God spoke. And here's the truth: God often blesses that motion. He doesn't like it, he doesn't want us to sit still in hesitation because a lot of times when we do that, then we get stuck in our our own thoughts, and and I mean, then things can just, you know, just blow up all out of control. And next thing you know, we're you know, we're this guy that's been laying still for 38 years. And the man pulled you know by the pool didn't get healed again. He didn't get healed because he understood the whole deal. He just knew that God told him to get up and walk, and that's exactly what he did. And Jesus is still speaking to us today to rise, you know, to take up your bed and walk. You know, walk with a purpose, walk into healing, walk into obedience, walk into life that God has been preparing you for. Because Jesus finishes what he starts, and he's not done with you yet. He's definitely not done with me yet. When we step back in to look at the whole story, the message is simple. Jesus has finished what he starts, but he invites us to move with him. Jesus will do his part, but we have to do our part, just as we've seen in our scripture today. And so let me ask you, have you done your part? You know, what step is God already told you to take? What mat have you been lying on that he's telling you to pick up? Where do you need to pivot, shift, or move in a direction that he's nudging you? Because at some point, you know, like Rocky, the movie Rocky, Mickey told him, He's like, you know, we've got to stop hesitating, we've got to stop, you know, overthinking, we got to stop with perfect conditions. You know, he in that movie he told Rocky in the middle when, yeah, I think it was Rocky too, when they were in hospital and the child had been born, and finally Adrian told him to go. And Mickey's like, what are we waiting for? Let's do this. Well, that's what Jesus is saying to us today. What are you waiting for? Let's do this. No more waiting, no more excuses, no more fear, only moving forward. And maybe someone listening, this is the very first step that you need to take. Isn't you know, and it isn't a habit or a decision or direction, it's just Jesus Himself. You need to take the step to fully surrender your life to him and make him Lord of your life today. And if you've never said yes to him, to his grace, and never taken that first step of faith, then today is your moment. Today is the day. Today can be the day that you rise and leave the old life behind and begin walking with the one who finishes what he starts. Give you us some things to think about. Things we gotta, you know, this I always tell people a lot of these messages are for me, but you know, it gets to share them with you all. So that's pretty cool. So let's go ahead and pray and uh we wrap this episode up. Father God, again, we just come to you and thank you for the opportunity to open your word and to share that with so many. But Lord, you know, today was a little bit challenging. Um, and Father, we just ask that you just let, you know, as you go through this next week, that uh they really get to just ponder on this message and and really just kind of go back to your word and and let it challenge themselves. And and Father, maybe it'll be the day that uh you know they realize that they've been sitting there stuck on their mat. And that today is the day that they need to get up and get moving forward. So, Father, we just ask you to continue to teach us, challenge us, and move us. Lord, we love you and we thank you again for all that you do in Jesus' name, amen. All right, so if this message has encouraged you, uh please don't forget to like it, share it with a friend, and subscribe so that you never miss what's next. And make sure you hit the little bell too, because that lets you know when we got one that just posted and went live. 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