4.2.2025 Prayer Room – Mark 2:1-12

MARK 2:1-12

1 When he entered Capernaum again after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and he was speaking the word to them. 3 They came to him bringing a paralytic, carried by four of them. 4 Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

6 But some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts: 7 “Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

8 Right away Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk’? 10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — he told the paralytic — 11 “I tell you: get up, take your mat, and go home.”

12 Immediately he got up, took the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this! ”

HEAR:

Listen to the voice of God. You can specifically think through the following:

• Hear these words as an invitation to receive healing and forgiveness from Jesus; these words are always available for his children. (v. 9-11)

• Have we become prone to have a spirit of grumbling against God? Repent of this and ask for an honest encounter with the Lord. (v. 6-7)

• Is our faith such that we desire healing, reconciliation, revival or more? Fix your eyes on Jesus, the perfecter of our faith. The Spirit moves when the Son is exalted.

  
  

RESPOND:

• Pray for and imagine a day when the room is so filled with people trying to hear the words of Jesus that no room is left.

• Petition for our city to change its desire, to want Jesus. Ask obstacles or resistance to be removed if they are preventing healing or reconciliation. Not just for yourself, but for others (raise your vision a little higher)! (v. 4)

• Rejoicing is a normal consequence of encountering Jesus; worship and rejoice as his children! (v. 12)