From Just Fine to Joyful

“Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.”
- John 16:24

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
- John 5:1-3

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
- John 5:5-6

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
- John 5:7

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
- Romans 12:2

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
- John 5:8

“Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
- Ephesians 5:14

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.”
- Isaiah 60:1

“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.”
- Colossians 1:13

At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
- John 5:9