Sunday 20th September 2015 - A Second Touch - Martin Kedian

KLC. SUNDAY 20/ 9/2015 TITLE. A SECOND TOUCH GOD GIVES AS MUCH GRACE AS WE NEED HE TOUCHED ME HE TOUCHED ME AND OH THE JOY THAT FILLED MY SOUL SOMETHING HAPPENED AND NOW I KNOW HE TOUCHED ME AND MADE ME WHOLE WHO HERE HAS KNOWN THE MASTERS TOUCH SCRIPTURES. MARK 8:: 22 -25 AND THEY CAME TO BETHESDA AND SOME PEOPLE BROUGHT TO HIM A BLIND MAN AND BEGGED HIM TO TOUCH HIM AND HE TOOK THE BLIND MAN BY THE HAND AND LED HIM OUT OF THE VILLAGE AND WHEN HE HAD SPIT ON HIS EYES AND LAID HIS HANDS UPON HIM HE ASKED HIM DO YOU SEE ANYTHING AND HE LOOKED UP AND SAID I SEE MEN BUT THEY LOOK LIKE TREES WALKING THEN AGAIN HE LAID HIS HANDS UPON HIS EYES AND HE LOOKED INTENTLY AND WAS RESTORED AND SAW EVERYTHING CLEARLY JEREMIAH. 1 5::10 BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I DEDICATED YOU A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS I APPOINTED YOU AH LORD GOD I SAID I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SPEAK I AM TO YOUNG BUT THE LORD ANSWERED ME DO NOT SAY I AM TO YOUNG TO WHOMEVER I SEND YOU YOU SHALL GO WHATEVER I COMMAND YOU YOU SHALL SPEAK DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THEM FOR I AM WITH YOU TO DELIVER YOU ORACLE OF THE LORD THEN THE LORD EXTENDED HIS HAND AND TOUCHED MY MOUTH SAYING TO ME SEE I PLACE MY WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH IF YOU ASK SOMEONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THE TOUCH OF GODS HAND TO DESCRIBE THAT EXPERIENCE THEY WILL USE WORDS LIKE WONDERFUL AMAZING SUPERNATURAL AWESOME MIRACULOUS UNBELIEVABLE AND LIFE CHANGING TOUCH IS SOMETHING EVERY HUMAN BEING LONGS FOR WAS DESIGNED FOR ... AND DESPERATELY NEEDS THIS MORNINGS MESSAGE IS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO GOD TOUCHED AND PEOPLE WHO LONGED TO BE TOUCHED BY GOD AGAIN IN OUR GOSPEL TEXT MARK RECORDS FOR US A RATHER STRANGE EVENT OF A BLIND MAN WHO WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS COMES TO JESUS TO BE HEALED NOW THIS MAN WAS IN A BAD WAY THIS GUY WAS BLIND AND THAT WAS JUST ABOUT AS BAD AS ANYONE COULD BE IN JESUS TIME TODAY WE CAN PREVENT AND TREAT SO MANY EYE PROBLEMS MANY HERE WEAR GLASSES OR CONTACTS OR HAVE HAD LASER SURGERY OR CATARACT SURGERY HOW WOULD LIFE BE FOR YOU WITHOUT GLASSES OR CONTACTS OR SURGERY BAD VISION IS BAD ENOUGH BUT IN JESUS DAY TO BE BLIND WAS TO BE HELPLESS AND WITHOUT HOPE HOW DID HE SEE HIMSELF UNCLEAN UNWANTED UNWORTHY UNLOVED ISOLATED AS FAR AS WE KNOW THIS BLIND MAN DIDNT KNOW JESUS HIS FRIENDS TAKE HIM BY THE HAND AND LEAD HIM IN DESPERATION FOR A MEETING WITH JESUS THE MAN HIMSELF HAD VERY LITTLE FAITH AND EVEN LESS HOPE AND NO CHANCE OF RECOVERY AS FAR AS HE KNEW ALIVE BUT BLIND WAS AS GOOD AS IT WAS GOING TO GET FOR HIM AND THEN JESUS TOUCHED HIM HE TOOK HIM BY THE HAND HE TOUCHED HIS EYES THE MAN COULD SEE LIGHT AND PEOPLE AND MOVEMENT BUT HIS EYESIGHT WASNT PERFECT BUT THAT WAS STILL A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN THE DARKNESS THE BLINDNESS IN THAT TOUCH JESUS GAVE THE MAN A GLIMPSE OF POSSIBILITY. A GLIMPSE OF HOPE OF HOW MUCH BETTER LIFE COULD BE AND THE MAN WANTED MORE HE WANTED TO BE TOUCHED AGAIN HE WANTED A SECOND TOUCH HE WANTED MORE AND JESUS STRETCHING OUT HIS HAND TOUCHED HIM AGAIN AND IN THAT SECOND TOUCH THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN BROKEN BY BLINDNESS WAS HEALED AND WHOLE AND COMPLETE HIS FUTURE AND HIS LIFE WAS RESTORED TO HIM HE NOW SAW HIMSELF AS CLEAN. WANTED I HAVE WORTH LOVED IN COMMUNITY LET EVERY EYE BE OPENED IN THIS PLACE OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART LORD OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART I WANT TO SEE YOU AND IN THAT SECOND TOUCH THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN BROKEN BY BLINDNESS WAS HEALED AND WHOLE AND COMPLETE JEREMIAH IS ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS TOUCHED BY GOD ::: AND THEN TOUCHED AGAIN NOW UNLIKE THE BLIND MAN WHO HAD LITTLE FAITH JEREMIAH WAS A MAN OF GREAT FAITH HE LOVED GOD AND HE KNEW THAT GOD HAD ALREADY TOUCHED HIM IN FACT GOD REMINDS JEREMIAH BY SAYING BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU. YOU SEE GOD HAD BEEN PERSONALLY AND INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN CREATING JEREMIAH AND JEREMIAH WAS A FOLLOWER OF GOD HE WAS GODS MAN EAGER AND READY TO LIVE FOR GOD AND TO LIVE FOR GOD AND TO SERVE HIM BUT THERE WAS JUST ONE PROBLEM JEREMIAH COULDN'T DO IT NOT EVERY DAY NOT 24/7 HE FELT INADEQUATE HE HAD WEAKNESSES AND FAULTS BUT HE JUST WASNT THAT GOOD SOUND KIND OF FAMILIAR BE ENCOURAGED GOD USED JEREMIAH AND HE WANTS TO USE YOU EVEN THOUGH WE MESS UP AND SCRAPE OUR KNEES GOD STILL SEES GREATNESS IN US JEREMIAH NEEDED SOMETHING MORE THAN HE HAD IN HIMSELF HE NEEDED ANOTHER TOUCH OF GODS HAND AND SO GOD TOUCHES JEREMIAH AGAIN TOUCHES HIS MOUTH AND JEREMIAH GOES ON TO BE ONE OF THE HEROES OF THE FAITH I JUST LOVE HOW GOD CAN TAKE AND TRANSFORM A TIMID BUT WILLING SELF CONSCIOUS DISCIPLE INTO A CONFIDENT CAPABLE LEADER WITH JUST THE TOUCH OF HIS HAND THE TOUCH OF GOD IT REALLY IS AMAZING AND WONDERFUL AND AWESOME BUT YOU KNOW ME. THIS ISNT JUST ABOUT THE BLIND MAN AND JEREMIAH ITS ABOUT YOU TOO AND ME THE WORD OF GOD ALWAYS !!!! ENCOUNTERS US AND CHALLENGES US AND ASKS US WHAT ABOUT YOU WHATS YOUR STORY HOW DO YOU FIT INTO GODS STORY YOUR STORY MAY NOT BE IN THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE OR WRITTEN IN INK BUT YOU HAVE A STORY AND LIKE IT OR NOT LOVE IT OR NOT YOU ARE WRITING IT RIGHT NOW YOUR STORY MAY HAVE SOME SIMILARITIES TO JEREMIAH'S STORY YOU HAVE A SENCE THAT GOD IS CALLING YOU TO DO SOMETHING OR CALLING YOU TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAN YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN BE I AM CALLING FORTH THE GOLD TODAY COME ON ONE MORE TOUCH AND THE BLIND MANS STORY IT MAY NOT BE SO DIFFERENT FROM YOUR OWN IN SOME WAYS YOU MAY BE JUST LIKE THE BLIND MAN OH YOU CAN SEE ALRIGHT BUT YOU KNOW. IF NO ONE ELSE KNOWS THAT YOUR LIFE IS JUST A BROKEN AS THIS MANS YOUR SITUATION SEEMS JUST IMPOSSIBLE YOUR HOPE OF THINGS BEING BETTER OF BEING A WINNER AND NOT A LOOSER IS ALL BUT GONE. AND YOU FEEL HELPLESS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT PERHAPS LIKE THE BLIND MAN YOU YOU NEVER REALLY MET JESUS EITHER NOT FACE TO FACE AND LIKE THE BLIND MAN YOU WANT TO HAVE FAITH BUT ITS HARD YOU KNOW THIS STORY SOUNDS AWFULLY FAMILIAR TO PEOPLE JESUS TOUCHED HIM AND TODAY HE IS WILLING TO TOUCH YOU HIS TOUCH TOTALY TRANSFORMED THIS MANS LIFE GAVE HIM A FUTURE AND A REASON TO BELIEVE AND A REASON TO REJOICE A REASON TO GET UP IN THE MORNING AND TO GET DRESSED AND TO GET GOING TALK ABOUT AWESOME AMAZING AND WONDERFUL AND IF JESUS CAN DO THAT FOR THIS BLIND MAN HE CAN TOUCH US TOO YOU DONT NEED A WHOLE LOT OF FAITH JUST A LITTLE WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO HAVE A TOUCH LIKE THAT FROM JESUS TODAY OR LIKE JEREMIAH YOU CAN SAY GOD HIMSELF HAD A HAND IN YOUR CREATION YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING TOUCHED BY GOD BUT TODAY YOU KNOW YOU NEED A FRESH TOUCH ITS BEEN TO LONG. YOUR DRY AND THIRSTY COME AND DRINK HERE IS LIVING WATER WOVEN INTO THESE TWO STORIES OF JEREMIAH AND THE BLIND MAN IS A DIVINE TRUTH THAT IS ECHOED THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE YOU SEE GOD IS NOT DONE WITH US YET WE ARE A WORK IN PROGRESS IF YOU ARE NOT THE MAN YOU WANT TO BE. HANG ON IN THERE GOD IS NOT DONE YET. THERE IS YET ONE MORE TOUCH JEREMIAH AND THE BLIND MAN LIVED HUNDREDS OF YEARS APART BUT GOD IS THE SAME YESTERDAY TODAY AND FOREVER THEY BOTH LONGED FOR A TOUCH THE BIBLE IS FULL OF STORIES OF PEOPLE WHOES LIVES WERE TOUCHED BY GOD JESUS TOUCHED THE BLIND MAN AND GAVE HIM BACK SIGHT AND HOPE HE TOUCHED LEPERS AND GAVE THEM DIGNITY JESUS TOUCHED THE WOMAN WHO WAS SICK AND BLEEDING AND GAVE HER HEALTH JESUS TOUCHED THE PEOPLE WHO WERE PARALYSED AND SET THEM FREE TO WALK AND RUN JESUS TOUCHED CHILDREN AND BLESSED THEM JESUS TOUCHED A DEAD GIRL AND GAVE HER LIFE WHAT ABOUT US. TODAY WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO DO FOR YOU TODAY WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO BE TOUCHED BY GOD TODAY IN A LIFE CHANGING WAY JESUS SON OF GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME. AMEN