I Don't Look Like What I've Been Through



I Don't Look Like What I've Been Through

(Mark 5:19-20 KJV)

Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

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ife sometime feels like a card game playing with a bad hand. It’s inevitable that when you play the game of life you’ll occasionally be dealt a bad hand. But as any real winner knows, your experience of life will come down to how you play the hand you’re dealt. Poker players sometimes emerge victorious even when they have terrible cards because of their ability to maintain their composure and puzzle the pieces of the game together.

Life is like a card game problems will always be part of the human experience, but, handled the right way our biggest problems often end up being the biggest blessing in disguise. God specializes in bringing each of us deliverance from the burden of life. He is our strength in weakness. He gives us more than we can bear so that we rely on Him alone! God knows what He is doing. Our burdens are too heavy for us, but never too heavy for Him. And when we see someone suffering we should not tell them they need to be stronger; we should be that strength for them to make it through difficult times.

The truth to the matter in subjective is each of us have experienced some trying times in our lifetime, but God have kept us in His pavilion and placed His shield of protection before us. And the ultimate testimony you can tell the world is, "I Don't Look Like What I've Been Through!" Can I get a Witness?

This man in the text has experienced trying times. He has gone through so much that he was treated as a orphanage and left out in the graveyard while ambushed by the anger of a hostile society. He's been through so much; yet in the end Jesus showed up and restored him back to his right standing and frame of mind. Let's see what really happened to this man, in order to see ourselves; knowing Jesus makes the difference in our life

I. He was Isolated from the Community:

And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. (Mark 5:1-5).

Let us before will deal with chapter five rightly divide chapter four before moving on. In chapter four According to Mark Jesus had to get away from the demand of the crowd and instructed His disciples to travel together by boat to the other side of the shores of the Galilean sea. But just like in everyday life they were met with some obstacles on the raging sea in which He demonstrated His powers He posses over nature. Jesus after calming the sea He arrives on the other side and set foot in Gadara in chapter five. This is where He was met immediately by a raving, demon-possessed man who had been chained by the local community and left to generally inhabit the area of the tombs in the cemetery.

Like most cemeteries, the cemetery in the landscapes of our lives is a place of loss, grief, and even despair. It is a place of death, sometimes literally, but more often metaphorically. And throughout our lives

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