Mark 10:46-52 What Do You Want Me To Do?

Mark 10:46-52 What Do You Want Me To Do?

One of the things I have learned through years of counseling people is that what they think they want is not what they need or even truly desire for their life. They want to continue to do the same things and somehow get different results. The saying I love says “if you always do what you have always done you will always get what you always got. Two weeks ago we talked about believing or having faith in the long term. Last week we talked about believing deeply. Now we have the question of what do we really want and what are we willing to do to get it?

1.Bartimaeus gets ready
a. Bartimaeus the beggar by the road
b. people passed by and ignored him all the time.
c. He shouts out to Jesus
d. people around him tell him to shut-up
e. He shouts even louder

2. Jesus stops
a. Jesus calls him
b. Bartimaeus springs up and comes to Jesus
c. “What do you want me to do for you?”
d. “I want to see.”
e. “Go your way” he is healed and then follows Jesus

3. What do you want me to do for you?
a. What is it you really want Jesus to do?
b. how far are you willing to go to get it?
c. cry out to God, throw off your comfort robes, run in the darkness
d. If you always do….

4. Your encounter
a. Imagine you are sitting by the road
b. in your heart cry out to Jesus
c. though people tell you it’s no use yell even louder
d. Jesus stops and turns around and calls you
e. you run to him and He looks at you.
d. Jesus ask you “What do you want Me to do for you?”
e. Tell Jesus right now.
f. Listen now as Jesus tells you it is done “your faith has made you well.”