Here's Johnny Erickson Tata with an important perspective on suffering.

Jesus is heaven-bent on getting as close and intimate and personal with you as he possibly can.

And he's going to squeeze that lemon so that your soul, sin-free, can be better bonded to his heart.

And you will enjoy ecstasy beyond compare.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Holiness, The Heart God Purifies, for June 25, 2019.

Here's some of what we heard yesterday from Johnny Erickson Tata.

For now there is in Jerusalem near the sheep gate a pool, which 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.

One who was there had been an invalid for 38 years, and 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? Then Jesus said to him, get to him, get up and walk i cannot tell you how many nights i would imagine myself by the pool of

bethesta dressed in a rough burlap cloak maybe lying next to that man on the straw mat paralyzed

for 38 years hoping desperately hoping that j Jesus would not pass me by, but that

he'd hear my cry to be set free, free from this paralyzed body, free from the anxiety, the

depression, the worry, the fear, and even the suicidal despair.

To me, healing had always been the big deal.

Freedom from this physical problem

had always been the big deal. But to God, my soul

was a much bigger deal.

And that's when I started searching.

I started searching for a different kind of freedom, a deeper kind of healing.

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