Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your

morning drive. When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to

change. For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

This Christmas, we want to invite

you and your family to join us for our candlelight services on December 22nd through 24th at any

of our six locations or for church online. For more information, visit lakepoint.combe.combe.

And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

Welcome to the Daily Drive. I am Pastor Jobi Martin. It is a pleasure to be back with you again.

If you would turn your attention to Mark chapter 2, I know you're driving, but I'll read it for you.

The Bible says this. It's one of the earliest miracles

recorded in the gospel of Mark, not the first one, but one of the early ones. And Mark says this,

and when Jesus returned to Copernium after some days, it was reported that he was at home.

And many were gathered together so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And Jesus was

preaching the word to them, and they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when

they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him. And when they had made an

opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic him. And when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which

the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, you hear that? When Jesus saw their faith,

he said to the paralytic, son, your sins are forgiven. Now, I could totally preach an hour sermon

just on this section of this event, but there's a couple of things I want you to pay attention to. First of all, this man on the mat, this paralytic, he had four friends that were willing to pick up a corner of the mat and carry him to Jesus. Let me ask you, do you have four friends that are willing to drop whatever's going on in their life and at great inconvenience and cost to themselves? Do you have four friends that would be willing to drop whatever's going on in their life, and at great inconvenience and costs to themselves,

do you have four friends that would be willing to pick up a corner of your mat

and carry you to Jesus?

And if not, then something is wrong.

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