Today brother Charles spoke on the man who was
 waiting at  the pool for the waters to be stirred, and how Jesus
 came and told him to rise and take up his bed and walk
 and go home.
 Had the man not done any of this, he would not have
 been  healed.
 Jesus, it says, on the Sabbath, rested from 
creating,  but he never rests, never stops interceding for us,
 never stops working upon our behalf.
 We however, go to Jesus all the time with an order  list,
 we have taken His vehicle, His keys, and even his map and 
told him sit in the back or the passenger seat; "I know the 
way and I know far better than you what to do and what I 
want and need..."
  We have heard it said many times to take our burdens
 and cares and leave them at Jesus' feet and leave them
 there, but have we heard this, what brother Charles said?
 Not only take all of this but us ourselves and our burdens 
and cares and leave them at Jesus feet; did you get it?
Ourselves along with everything else, that is the secret.  We can disable Jesus, but we have to enable Him, because He has given us all the gift of free will.
 Brother Charles always has an illustration of some
 kind, and today was no exception.
 He came on the platform blind folded.
 And felt around for his pulpit and all there.
 Are you and I blind?
 Yes I know that I am not physically blind but aren't I 
spiritually blind?
 And we all are blind.
 We can only see what is at hand to touch and no  more;
 so how in the world can we possibly know what to do,  much  less what ought to be done in our lives?
 Too often God is whispering in our ear, "this is not what I had in mind..." "you are getting too close to the edge"... "look out!"or "you'll fall."
 We have cut the birth cord of our nourishment, our very
 life's blood and just wander off like sheep and one pastor
 we used to have; sheep are the most stupidest animals there
 are.  Do you know what a good shepherd does to a lamb who
 keeps wandering away?
 He breaks their legs with the shepherd's crook  so he can carry them in his arms  back to the fold.
Let's take another example,  We are going to have a dinner for everyone,  I go into the kitchen to bake a cake,  someone else comes into the kitchen and asks "what  are you making?"  I tell them I'm making a cake.  They say, "I don't like cake, I want a pie," and they  start mixing up all the ingredients and doing their own  thing.  Soon someone else comes in and asked us both, "what  are you doing?"  We tell them we are making a cake and a pie.  They say, "but I don't like cake and pie; I want a casserole for  my dinner," and so they proceed to make the casserole.  Now wouldn't it have been much simpler and better  had each individual asked what the other was doing and said  may I give you a hand and can you give me a hand and the  dinner would have been put together much faster, and much  more efficiently.   You who have jobs, when you go in there, do you tell your bosses what to do?  Or what you will or will not do, or say "I'm doing it this way"  I don't care how you make it or do it or what you want.  I believe, was it Martha or Mary(?) I get mixed up *smile*  that came in and sat at the feet of Jesus and washed his feet  with her tears and anointed them and dried them with her  hair.  What a servant, and what a service.  So how about it, have you asked Jesus lately, "what  can I do for you, and your work, and where do you want me."?  Jesus may we never forget that you are in charge and  remind us often and when we get impatient waiting, let us  remember the man at the pool who waited 38 years with no real  hope or movement during that whole time.  In His name, amen.