Chapter 28. Famous People Who Suffered
Loneliness And Depression
Matthew 14: 14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great
multitude, and was moved with compassion towards them and He healed their
sick.
It looks as if Jesus was touched in the heart before He healed. But it we
examine the scriptures very carefully, it is more than just being touched.
There was something moving and stirring like a life force within Him. It was
as if there was an explosion of God’s love flowing in Him and causing the
healing to come forth.
The Compassion that Feeds
Matthew 15: 32f Then Jesus called His disciples and said, “I have
compassion on the multitude, because they have been with Me for three days,
and have nothing to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they
faint on the way. (cf also Mark 8: 2ff)
Earlier it was a healing miracle. Now it is a feeding miracle. Before
every feeding miracle, there was a compassion that Jesus had for His people.
You could copy everything Jesus did, say everything Jesus said and try all
the right things but if you do not have compassion, there is a huge power
gap and vacuum. The compassion that Jesus had drew on the miracle working
power of God. The people ate from the compassion of Jesus.
The multiplication of the bread and fishes was a creative miracle. The
key to creative miracles and the key to all miracles is the compassion that
needs to flow in our lives for that miracle to work.
The Compassion that Heals
Mark 1: 40-42 And there came up a leper up to Him, beseeching Him, and
kneeling down to Him, and saying to Him, “If You will, You can make me
clean. And Jesus moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him,
and said to him, I will; be thou clean. And as soon as He had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Matthew 15: 30-32 And great multitudes came unto Him, having with them
those who were lame, blind, dumb, maimed and many others, and put them down
at Jesus’ feet; and He healed them. Insomuch that the multitude wondered,
when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be well, the lame to walk,
and the blind to see; and they glorified the God of Israel. Then Jesus
called His disciples to Him, and said, “I have compassion on the
multitude, because they continue with Me three days now..
When Jesus saw the sick, there was a stirring within His spirit.
Compassion rose up in His heart, and it is in His compassion that the people
could get their miracle. But the miracle came from His spirit first.
We see creative miracles of the leper and maimed being made whole –
these are creative miracles. I believe that before the outpouring in this
planet earth, a great revival that God is going to bring forth, we will see
a stirring of compassion. Compassion must flow in our hearts before we can
see creative miracles.
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