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HE’S on his marks. He’s set. He’s going for gold. The fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt, is raring to defend the Olympic sprint crowns he won four years ago.

Back in Beijing, Bolt burst on to the world stage when he cruised to victory in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay finals. In the

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THE Mission to Seafarers in Falmouth provided clothes, toiletries and food to survivors of a fire on board the MSC Flaminia.

The blaze, which broke out as the ship trav-elled across the North Atlantic, took the life of one person and injured three more. A further crew member is unaccounted for. After orders to abandon ship, the survivors were recovered by a passing tanker and were taken to the port at Falmouth.

Mission to Seafarers’ emergency response team welcomed the crew on their arrival and provided them with essential items. Medical staff treated survivors at the Christian organi-sation’s Flying Angel centre and gave them access to telephone cards and the internet so they could contact their loved ones.

A SALVATION Army mem-ber who competed at the 1980 Olympics carried the flame for the 2012 Games through Midhurst in West Sussex. Ian Richards – who represented Great Britain in the 50km race walk at the Moscow Games – said he felt very privileged to take part in the torch relay.

‘The Moscow Olympics were a boycotted Olympics and, even though I competed, I wasn’t allowed to take part in the opening and closing ceremonies. So to be part of these Olympics by carrying the torch was a very special compensation.’

Ian was nominated as a torch-bearer by one of the

young people at the Worthing Salvation Army church where he worships.

He says the reason he got the chance to carry the flame was less to do with his Olympic past than how he used his per-sonal story with young people.

‘At school I was absolutely useless at sport,’ he says. ‘I found out about race walk-ing after I left school, and 11 years later I was taking part in the Olympics. I’ve been sharing that story with youngsters ever since, through school assemblies, the Cub Scouts, the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and The

Salvation Army.‘I try to enthuse the kids

who think they are rubbish at sport not to give up but to try something different, because I believe everybody is good at something.’

Days after carrying the torch, Ian took it into a school to show to the children.

He also uses his story to speak to people about his faith. He says: ‘Engaging with sport is a way of connecting with God. Lots of people experi-ence God through music and the performing arts. I feel very close to him when I’m out training and when I’m racing.’

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THE Bishop of Durham, the Right Rev Justin Welby, has been appointed to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. The commission is to investigate the ‘professional standards and culture of the UK banking sector, taking account of regulatory and competition investigations into the Libor rate-setting process’.

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YOUR prayers are requested for David, who is unwell; and for Brenda, who faces pressures as a full-time carer.

The War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the names of individuals and details of their circumstances. Send your requests to PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, Lon don SE1 6BN. Mark your envelope ‘Confidential’.

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BIBLE Society and the Church’s Olympic mission agency More Than Gold have teamed up to make Bibles and Scripture portions available free to athletes in the Olympic Village Religious Services Centre.

The two organisations have been working together to provide 3,000 copies of the Scriptures in English and nearly 1,000 Bibles and New Testaments in other languages.

David Willson, CEO of More Than Gold, says: ‘At past Olympics and other major sports events, I’ve seen athletes deeply grateful for the free gift of a Bible.’

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so I expect to come back.‘It’s back to the drawing board. I’ll

have to figure out what I did wrong and work on it. I’m not far off. For me, it’s always good to lose, it wakes you up.’

Whether he’ll feel the same if he loses in London over the next few weeks remains to be seen. One thing’s for sure, there’s no way he’s going to regard it as a stroll in the park.

In any event that is decided in the blink of an eye, missing the prize by the merest of margins is hard to take, especially if, like Bolt, we have been used to things going our way. But the record shows that that’s what happened to one man who had

the world at his feet.He had everything going for him –

youth, wealth and power. He also had a good track record in doing the right thing. He thought these were good enough to qualify him for a place in Heaven. Jesus put him straight.

‘One thing you lack,’ he said. ‘Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven. Then come, follow me’ (Mark 10:21 New International Version).

Giving up the things he depended on – that made him feel good, that gave him status – was a step too far.

The story continues: ‘At this the

man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth’ (10:22).

Those who think God will reward them for their achievements – their good living, donations to charity, church attendance – are likewise mis-taken. The way to Heaven is to repent and turn from our wrongdoing, ask God for forgiveness and put our trust in Jesus as the one who puts us right with God.

There’s no need to lose out by get-ting it wrong about being in a right relationship with God. If we recognise the wake-up call and step out in faith to Jesus, we are on to a winner.

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100m, he celebrated victory way before the line – yet still beat the world record of 9.7 seconds he’d set just 78 days earlier. In the 200m final, he smashed Michael Johnson’s 12-year-old world record by more than a tenth of a second.

A year later, at the World Championships in Berlin, he did the double for a second time, setting the record times of 9.58 and 19.19 seconds.

And second was a long way back. Until now, that is – because training partner and fel-

low Jamaican Yohan Blake is doing some cool running of his own.

In last month’s Jamaican national championships, Blake ran the fastest time of the year to edge Bolt into second place in the 100m. Three days later, he beat the sprint king over his preferred distance of 200m.

After the meet, Bolt told reporters: ‘I’m the Olympic champion. I have to show the world that I’m the best –

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they were injured in any way, they got sent to me and I’d try to fix them.

‘Another part of my role was fitness testing. I had to make sure new people coming to work for the police were fit enough to do so.

OVER the past few weeks, the Olympic flame has

passed through more than 1,000 cities, towns and vil-lages in the torch relay. All the while, the torch security team – put together from the Metropolitan Police – has been working hard to keep it on track. And physio-therapist Jon Pilkington has been helping to keep the team itself on the move.

‘A team of 30 people have been running next to the torch-bearers. Sometimes only one or two have been running at any one time, but if the route gets really busy, six to ten members of the team have been accompanying the torch,’ he says.

‘All the runners were Metropolitan Police officers who were trained spe-cifically for the role. On the relay, they

have run anything from half a marathon to a full marathon each day.

‘My job has been to make sure the guys were fresh and could keep run-ning. Most days I’ve been massaging between four and eleven people. I’ve been treating injuries and have been putting ice on and strapping up ankles, knees, shoulders and hips.’

Jon has been working with the Metropolitan Police for four years. While studying for his sports therapy

degree, he took work experience in its rehabilitation department. After finish-ing university, Jon began working with the force as a rehabilitation specialist.

‘My main job was to get officers back on the streets,’ he says. ‘When

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‘We recently ran a health campaign, checking officers’ blood pressure and cholesterol. If they weren’t in the healthy bracket, they were invited to spend 12 weeks with us and do one-to-one sessions.’

During his time with the Met, Jon has dealt with a variety of injuries, some minor, others serious.

‘Some people have back problems from sitting in cars for too long, some suffer injuries from being in the office all day.

‘Other injuries are more extreme. We cared for one woman who was chas-ing someone and got her foot trapped in a rabbit hole. Her ankle was torn to shreds. She spent nearly two years in the rehabilitation department.’

When Jon’s time on the health cam-paign was coming to an end, he took on his role as torch security team rehab specialist. He started out on the road when the flame left Land’s End back in May.

Jon has enjoyed the experience.‘I’ve been getting up in the morning

to strap up the guys for the day’s run, before having a relaxed early afternoon en route to the next location.

‘Then I’ve been working from roughly 5 pm sometimes until mid-night, treating everyone as soon as they finish the relay,’ he says.

Although he has been pleased to be part of the team, Jon has missed his home in

North London.‘My mum and dad ring me every day

to see how I’m doing. My best mate rings me once a week to have a chat,’ he says.

‘My twin sister lives in Belfast so when the relay went there she was able

to see me and have photos taken with the torch. It is good being able to share that with my family.’

Jon was brought up in The Salvation Army and now attends Soul Survivor, a church in Watford. His faith has helped him while he is on the road.

‘My mum and dad have given me some inspirational words to keep with me and look at each day. It keeps me strong to know that they are praying for me,’ Jon says.

‘I’ve had a lot of encouragement and text messages from guys at Soul Survivor and from The Salvation Army. It is a nice thing to know people care.’

The relay over, the Olympic flame will burn on at the Games. And Jon’s time on the torch relay will live on in his memory.

‘It has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience,’ he says. ‘I never thought I would be part of the Olympics.’

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I’ve been treating injuries and have been putting ice on and strapping up ankles, knees, shoulders and hips

ART historian James Fox wrote in the Radio Times about the Christian significance of the colour gold. The presenter of BBC Four’s A History of Art in Three Colours, which airs on Wednesdays, explained that – whereas for the ancient Egyptians gold represented immortality – for Christians gold symbolised divine light.

‘Early Church artists used gold not because it was expen-sive,’ he wrote, ‘but simply because it looked miraculous. In the great Byzantine churches of the 6th century, before they

could build really large win-dows, they could flood a building with light by using properties of gold mosaic.’

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IT is a question of sport. What happens next?

When tickets went on sale, there was a stampede to bag a seat. The Olympic flame sparked public enthusiasm as thousands of people lined the streets of every town and village it visited.

Over the next two weeks, millions of sport fans will gather around tellies and big screens to cheer on Britain’s Olympic hopefuls. How many times will they hear the National Anthem?

That London is staging the biggest show on earth is by any standards an achievement. The £9 billion budget is colossal.

While the pre-Games talk was of regenerating East London, some companies have gone out of business to make way for the new stadiums. Many of London’s railway stations have had a facelift, yet the capital’s lifeblood commuters face uncertainty as to how they are going to get to the office to keep business ticking over while the Games are on.

Sponsors – especially those with Olympian-endorsed products – are looking for a return on their investment.

So should the country as a whole. One of the key ingredients of the bid to host these Games was legacy.

London 2012 cannot afford to become just a fortnight’s distraction from economic gloom. Britons, especially those living in poorer areas such as parts of East London, deserve more than a passing feel-good factor.

Taxpayer money sunk into the Games could have been spent on new hospitals, schools and social housing. The Games have created jobs and sporting facilities. The athletes’ village will become a new settlement. It is vital that those responsible for legacy get the best deal they can for the benefit of the area’s poorest.

Sport has the power to unite disparate communities and inspire individuals to greater things. Rightly used, so does politics.

The Games have begun. The question is: What happens next?

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CommentMedia

THE website of film magazine Empire responded to news that Will Smith plans to direct The Redemption of Cain by suggesting that everyone seemed ‘to be working on a biblical epic these days’.

The site continued: ‘Between Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott taking a look at Moses and Darren Aronofsky off building his giant ark for Noah, you do start to wonder if they’ve heard something we’re not privy to. Bible fever is spreading.’

THE hit BBC drama Call the Midwife, about a young midwife attached to an order of nursing nuns, has been ‘snapped up’ by the American Public Broadcasting Service, reported The Independent.

The paper said that TV executives hope it can become a hit like another British drama, Downton Abbey.

Earlier in the year, the daughters of Jennifer Worth – whose memoirs form the basis for the series – told the Radio Times that working alongside an order of nuns influenced their mother’s Christian faith.

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DECIDING that it had had enough of the dull and wet summer weather, The Sun asked a clergyman to write a prayer for the nation. Canon David Meara of St Bride’s Church in London’s Fleet Street wrote:Almighty God, in Noah’s day,A flood swept all mankind away.But listen please to this our prayer,Send us sunshine bright and fair.We’re fed up with persistent rain,We want the sun to shine again.We promise we’ll take better care,Of Earth and sea and land and air.

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could be losing up to a third of your heat if they are not insulated.

Loft insulation is one of the easiest and cheapest ways of boosting the energy efficiency of your house.

Installing insulation to a depth of 270mm can help you cut your heating bills by £175 a year.

If you start think-ing about making such improvements now, your home will be cosier and cheaper to run by the time winter sets in.

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If your boiler is old, it could be worthwhile replacing it with a modern condensing or fan-assisted boiler.

Investing in new heating controls can also help you save money.

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Saving energy: top tips

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Lofty ideas save homeowners money

Heating: Turn your thermostat down by 1C. It could save you £55 a year. If you’re going away for winter, leave the thermostat on low to provide protection from frost damage.Hot water: It should be hot, but not scalding. Setting the cylinder thermostat at 60C/140F is fine for bathing and washing.Appliances: To cut down on wasted energy, avoid leaving appliances on standby and remember not to leave them on charge unnecessarily.

MILLIONS of people are allowing money to leak out of their homes because they don’t take energy efficiency seriously. Heat is lost through loft spaces and walls. If your home has cav-ity walls, which most post-1930 properties do, you

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God were walking around while they were hard at work?

Obviously, not everyone wants to speak to a chaplain and not everyone even wants to acknowledge that you exist, but the workers appreciated us.

There were a couple of companies whose management told us we weren’t wanted but whose workers said they must have us. We discovered that workers from other companies, many of whom had never had a workforce chaplain before, liked having a chaplain around and told the new workers about us.

That spoke volumes to me. It was testimony to the role we’d

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The Olympic Park is ready. The East End landscape changed for ever. At the height of the construction, some 20,000

workers were on site, many of them living a long way from home. Keeping a

caring eye on them was chaplain the Rev KELVIN WOOLMER.

He tells Nigel Bovey about his part in the preparations

Kelvin, how and when did you become chaplain for the construction phase of the Olympic Park?

In October 2006, I had just taken on responsibility for nearby St Paul’s, Stratford. Someone came up with the idea of having a workplace chaplain and that I was the man for the job. At first, I didn’t want it but the idea grew on me.

Back then, the whole area was a complete brownfield site. It feels as though I’ve watched the Pyramids being built.

Were you the only workforce chaplain?At first I was, but as more companies came in it became

clear that more chaplains were needed, so I ended up heading a team of seven. When a new contractor arrived and set up their fences, we’d talk to them about becoming their chaplains.

How did the workers take to the idea that people of

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the build was very successful. There’s a statistic within the UK construction industry which says that for every million hours one worker dies. But there were no work-related deaths in

the park.

What was your role as chaplain?

I saw the job as being a critical friend, or lurking with intent, or being in the right place at the right time and certainly not condemning anyone.

In an early management meeting, for example, I pointed out that when it rained, the workforce had to stand out in the rain. Consequently, the management put up some shelters.

People approach a chaplain because they are independent of the management and they will keep what they hear in confidence. The workers tell you things they wouldn’t tell their mates. They tell you things that are affecting them emotionally.

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taken on in supporting their men. They valued having someone to talk to about personal matters who was outside the workforce and the management.

Where did the workers come from?Every part of the world. The initial

security force was made up of retired Gurkhas. They understood the role of chaplain very well. In fact, they named me their ‘padre’.

Did you have to deal with any fatalities on site?

No, the health and safety aspect of

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put people off. In fact, many found it reassuring. I’d often tell folks that I’d be praying for them, and they’d always be grateful to know that someone was prepared to do that.

One day, a scaffolder slid down the scaffold and leapt at me. I thought he was going to hit me. Instead, he garbled how his wife had gone into hospital that morning for a minor biopsy check and he got a phone call to say that there was a chance she was going to lose a breast. He was in a real state. He didn’t know who to talk to or what to do. I was there, right time, right place. With his say-so, I approached the management and suggested that he should be allowed to go home.

Another time, I was chatting to a fella who’d lost two fingers and a thumb in an accident some years previously. He was clutching his hand. I asked him if it was still giving him pain. ‘In more ways than you’d think,’ he said. He went on to tell me how the loss of those fingers had affected him emotionally, led to loss of wages and put his family life under strain. He said he’d never told that to anyone before and thanked me for listening.

I’m not a psychologist but I do believe God sometimes puts me in a position to help someone by listening to them. I like to think that trustworthiness is the legacy that chaplaincy leaves with people.

Did people talk to you about faith? Yes, I’ve had some blinding

conversations with people seeking faith. One fella is now going through ordination training. It was great to be able to mentor him through that decision.

A guy walked into my office one day and announced: ‘I am a pagan, you will never make me a Christian.’ I made a wisecrack, which broke the ice. Some time later, he asked me if I had a minute. We talked. He told me about some problems he was having.

Then, of course, there have been the usual questions about getting children baptised, having a register office wedding blessed in church because the couple don’t feel properly married, and how to get children into church schools.

Running a church in Stratford, you also have an interest in the community surrounding the Olympic Park. To what extent is the area being regenerated?

The initial enthusiasm for the

Olympics in this area was fantastic. Now the apathy is incredible. We have new buildings but there has been no spin-off or distribution of wealth into the community.

The new Westfield shopping centre in Stratford supposedly had 15,000 new jobs. But not every one of the 15,000 unemployed local people was given a

job there. Spin-off wealth is going to take a long time, if at all, to seep through and benefit residents.

Could the money spent on the development have been better used?

The £9 billion for the Olympic Park could, of course, have bought

more hospitals or schools, changing the social structure in many areas. But during an economic downturn, the building of these facilities has provided wages for people who would have otherwise been bereft of any income.

Many of the workers have been living in the area, spending their wages locally. So even if the local economy hasn’t been regenerated, I think it would have been far worse without the Games.

A vital aspect of the UK bid to host this year’s Games was the idea of legacy – that there would be

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four years old, got leukaemia. Back in the 1980s the survival rate of childhood leukaemia was only one in five. We were devastated.

People from the church rallied round. They cooked us meals, did our washing, helped look after our other two daughters, drove us up to Great Ormond Street Hospital and so on.

When our daughter went into remission, I thought I’d better go to church to say thank you. I was amazed to find ex-paratroopers and policemen there. I started going occasionally. Some time later, my wife and I went to a church gathering. After the sermon, I found myself wanting to pray. I didn’t know what to say. I just told Jesus that I was knocking on his door.

As I said this, I felt a hand upon my shoulder. I looked up and looked into the face of Christ. He said: ‘You’ll be all right now.’ I felt as though someone had taken a huge weight off my back. I made my way along the aisle and

walked to the speaker at the front. In front of the congregation of 300 I burst into tears. In that moment, I gave my life to Christ. I don’t just believe Christ exists; I know he does. Mine was a Damascus road-type conversion.

What differences in your lifestyle did meeting Jesus make?

Jesus changed my life completely. I had always enjoyed a punch-up at work. In fact, I’d been known to fight other policemen to be the first into the pub fight.

I was into weightlifting, weight training and boxing. I used to relish the opportunity to show someone I was stronger than them. I’d let anyone have the first punch, then I’d put them in hospital.

Then I realised I wasn’t the strongest person in the world. Jesus was. He did something that I could never do – get up on a cross and die for the rest of humanity. I wasn’t even sure that I’d get out of bed to help a mate.

Meeting Jesus made me a much calmer person. It made me realise that if my daughter didn’t survive, that whatever happened and however painful it would be, Jesus would be looking after her.

I discovered the power of prayer and how much God loves us. He loved me when I was at my most unloveable.

To see him standing next to me was more than I deserved. I certainly didn’t deserve his love.

I know that God is real. I know it’s true that God sent his Son Jesus to save us, because Jesus definitely saved me.

something of lasting benefit after the closing ceremony. Will the people of this area get the legacy they deserve?

Not totally. Councils don’t want to pick up the bills for maintenance, and we can’t blame them. The athletes’ village is in my parish. In time, it will become a housing estate, half of which will be housing association-run social housing and half privately owned. There will also be a school for 1,800 pupils aged from 3 to 18.

What kind of community there will be is anybody’s guess. You can build a house or a block of flats, but that doesn’t make a community. No consideration has been given to a faith aspect of bonding a community. There are no plans for a church, a traditional focal point of our communities.

How and when did you become a Christian?

It started when my wife said she wanted to get the kids into the local church school. She said that I’d have to start going to church.

That was never going to happen. I was in the police riot squad. I relished the idea of a fight. I was a bodybuilder. I was a macho man. I thought: ‘I don’t need anyone to pray to, I am a big powerful nasty piece of work.’ But as a good husband, I did as I was told.

Once we’d got the kids signed up for school, I stopped going to church. Then our eldest daughter, who was

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1. How many times, before 2012, has the UK hosted the Olympics?

2. How many countries participated in the 2008 Olympics?

3. What does the Olympic motto ‘Citius, altius, fortius’ mean?

4. Where and when did the first torch relay take place?

5. How many cycling gold medals did Chris Hoy win at the 2008 Games?

6. Which country is hosting the 2016 Olympic Games?

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‘hallowed’, which means it should be honoured and respected.

It also means we should take notice when we are told: ‘This is the way God says to do it.’

However, there are times when God’s name is used in a way that is not hallowed. It is used as an expression of shock, as in ‘Oh my God!’ (aka ‘OMG’) or in frustration, when, people say ‘For God’s sake!’

If we misuse God’s name, it devalues our understanding of him. We

begin to see God as no more than a figure of speech or an insult. But he is so much more than that.

God is our creator, who longs to be involved in our lives. Through the Bible, he teaches us the best way to handle any situation and, through his offer of forgiveness, he gives us the chance to put past mistakes behind us.

You name it – and God can make a difference in any part of our lives.

HAVE you noticed that some celebrities are so well known that they are often referred to by only their first name?

In the world of cooking you will find Delia, Nigella and Jamie. In music there’s Beyoncé, Kylie and Adele. And not many people need to be told that John, Paul, George and Ringo made up the Beatles.

In their particular field of expertise, those people are so successful that their first name is all that is needed for us to know who they are.

Their names also carry a level of authority. If we want to know how to boil an egg, we are more likely to follow the instructions if we are told: ‘This is the way Delia says to do it.’

In the Lord’s Prayer we are told that there is a name that carries ultimate authority. The prayer says that God’s name is to be

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Our Father, which art in Heaven,Hallowed be thy name,Thy Kingdom come,Thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread;And forgive us our trespasses,As we forgive them that trespass against us;

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his arm. An elderly woman was coughing uncontrollably.

As we waited, sitting on our plastic chairs, I pondered the word ‘patient’. It is not surprising that a person visiting a clinic is called a patient, for patience is definitely what we needed that day. I tried not to watch the clock, which seemed to be ticking very slowly.

My experience of waiting reminded me of a story in the Bible about a man with great patience. He had been an invalid for 38 years. But then he met Jesus.

‘Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked’ (John 5:8, 9 New International Version).

All of a sudden, everything was different.

Just as the man received life-changing help from Jesus, so can we.

Sometimes, when we turn to him and tell him our problems, we instantly feel better. But we may also face long-term difficulties that last for years.

Some problems don’t disappear in minutes,

such as illness, loneliness, bereavement and unemployment. In those instances, we require patience. We need to trust that Jesus still cares about us – and is still with us, during the period of waiting.

Whatever our need, we don’t need to delay in talking to Jesus about it. He wants to hear from us today. He is only a prayer away.

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