When The Waiting Is Over - Bro Philip Howell 2-8-2026

Said, we certainly miss our pastor and Pastor's wife. Hm.

I feel the presence of the Lord very strong here tonight.

I feel the spirit of revival. And uh, I know

it can be said we feel that every service, and

and that that is true, but I feel I feel

the Lord in a in a great way here tonight.

We'll be in uh in Saint John chapter number five.

We'll we'll start and uh we'll reading verse number two

and five once again as always, I give great honor

to my pastor. UH so thankful for the opportunity to

preach here. Uh. It's it's a surreal feeling. And and

I know we're just getting into preaching, not and not

been preaching too many years. But in praying before the service,

you know the gravity of it, if it'll let you,

will settle in on you. And I realized in in

praying in those moments, I said, you know, you grow

up here in preachers preaching, and you realize they're the

ones responsible in that service for having a word from God.

And that that settled in on me as I begin

to pray before the service, and I appreciate our pastor

every service having a word fitly spoken, not not just

a word. That's easy. Preachers do that all the time.

But a word fitly spoken is so important. So I

do appreciate our pastor and pastor's wife and miss them

so terribly. Again, Saint John, Chapter number five, We'll start

in verse number two. Now there is at Jerusalem, by

the sheep market a pool which is called in the

Hebrew tongue bethesda, having five porches, and these lay a

great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting

for the moving of the water. Verse number four. For

an angel went down out of certain season into the

pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first after the

troubling of the water, stepped in was made whole of

whatsoever disease he had. If the Lord will stand by

me for a little while, I'd like to preach on

when the waiting is over, And I'd like to preach

to everybody in the building, but those that need the

Holy Ghost, those that need healing, those that need salvation,

those that feel like you've been waiting for something for

some time. I want to preach, as I said, when

the waiting is over, if you would stretch your hands

towards Heaven, here tonight in this place, God, would you

give us clear garity of the scripture. God, give us

the words to say. God, would you help us to

do your word justice, God, and preach it the way

you would have it preached. Send your annointing in this place.

Lord will give you the honor the priest and the

glory Jesus' name. This is a very familiar story to

to people that have gone to church and and and

and Christian believers. This pool. When studying this, something that

that I had never heard really pointed out, and I

know you've read it in there, but that this pool

was in a very public place. It was next to

a sheep market. The Bible says, so so these men

they they couldn't hide their issue. Imagine with me these

men as they're if the Bible says, and they're on

that porch, and this says, there is a great multitude

of impotent folk, and they're laying on these porches. And

imagine with me being one of these impotent folk, either

one blind, one halt, one that was withered. Be imagine

being them standing there on that porch and seeing the

rest of the world. The rest of Jerusalem's life go

on as normal, and and and everyone around them knew

that these people were impotent. They knew why they were there.

As as said, some were blind, some were withered, some

had withered hands.

And everyone around them knew this.

And we get like that your pastor knows, and you

and your friends and family knows what you need. Everyone

on and including the people on those porches, knew what

the ones around them needed. There was five of those porches,

and and they all agreed, and they knew why they

were there. They had discussed it. They all had this,

and they were all in the same mind. They have

the same desire. They all knew they needed help, and

most of all, they all wanted healing. They knew that

at a certain season, at a certain time, God would

send his angel and he would begin to trouble that

pool at a certain season and certain time. And it

matters where you're at at the right time, and it

matters when you're there, why you're there. And so and

the Bible says, whosoever stepped in after the troubling of

the water was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

So as I said, and when the waters are troubled,

that's the time to take action. So right now we're

going into a season of revival. And what does that

tell you? That tells me that the waters are troubled.

That tells me that God has dealt with Pastor through

the sphere of the Holy Ghost and ordained a time

and a place for the waters to be troubled. I

plan I won't be long tonight. Brother Mikah told me

when we were about to play before church, he said,

don't preach too long, because I want to go home

and play, you know. And I'm gonna say, you know,

if I'm preaching, he'll more than likely get that wish.

But I would like for each and every one of.

Us to make it our mission and make it our

purpose that this revival is the time for me when

the waiting is over, it's my time that I get

the Holy Ghost. That is my time that I get

filled with the Holy Ghost. And it goes beyond that.

It ain't just a revival for people to be filled

with the Holy Ghost. It's a time for gifts to

be getting out. It's a time for greater annoytings to

be poured out. When we go into revival. The church

world has been pushed into such a mold off. It's

only a time for salvation and feeling out the Holy Ghost.

And that's true. But I want it to be my mission.

And my purpose to go in deeper with God to

get a greater annoyington. And then verse number five, and

it said, and a certain man was there which had

an infirmity thirty eight years. He had this problem way

too long, and I'm sure he got sick and tired

of it. Imagine the Bible doesn't I don't believe. I

don't know that he was there at the pool on

that porch for thirty eight years, but he had his

problem for thirty eight long years. And on down in

the Bible it says that he was an impotent man.

I didn't know what the definition of that was, so

I looked it up. It means unable to take effect

of action, helpless or powerless. And when when we're without God,

or we're without the Holy Ghost, or we're without anointing,

we are powerless. We are helpless. And when Jesus saw

him and lying there and knew that he had been

there a long time, and in that case, he's been

in that case for a long time, he said, unto him,

wilt thou be made whole, the Lord ask him. And

that's exactly what the Lord is asking us, each and

everyone in this revival. Will thou be made home? Wilt

thou receive the Holy Ghost? Wilt thou let God take

you into depths that he's never been, that you've never

been in the pool. Doesn't just getting deeper the pull

the pulse as deep as it is. It's when you

venture out and you find new depths. Who is that man?

He waited measured out and it was up to his

it was up to his knees, and then it went

to his lords, and then he was in waters to

swim in.

It's up to us to press and to push. And

this man was powerless, helpless that what what stood? What

what come to me?

But but he wasn't hopeless. He knew that if I

could only get in the water, if I could just

get in there, like he has seen it times past,

every last one of us. If you've been raised in church,

you've seen other people get saved, You've seen other people

get filled with the Holy ghat. You see what it's like.

But you're not hopeless. You have to hope. Hallylujah, He

tells Jesus that he has no man to put him

in the pool when the water is troubled. And when

he had come, he said, and when I am come,

another steppeth down before me. I'm sure that that got

absolutely wrecked his day. I don't know how long it.

Took from when God would send the angel the trouble

the water until.

The next time. But you know he sat there, and

that was the conversation amongst them, a great multitude. That

was the conversation on them porches was win, Will the

next stirn of the pool come? Win? Will the next

revival come? Revival is here? Maybe the revival you've talked

to your friends, the revival you've talked to your brothers

and sisters about, and said, if we could just give him,

I could get another chance. If I could get another chance,

I try my dead level past to push and to

poll and to get whatever God had for me. I'm

sure it was absolute heartbreaking when he pushed and he

tried his hardest to get in the pool when someone

was up down in front of him. But but but

in that day and age, it was first man in

got to bless him. But it's not lock down church.

Now we can get it, after saying it ain't no

race for who can get it. It's not a can't can't.

It's not a race that cannot get the hold. He

goes before brother so and so, because there's not enough

in this There was the first one in the pool

got the healing. But when it comes now, now that

God poured out a spirit in the days of the

Upper Room, now when he pours it out, he pours

it out on all this chilling. As I said, it's

not a race. But don't dare think that God ain't

watching to see who wants it. God is taking a

count for those that want it, and those that USh

and pull it, push the plate back. It does take work,

and only a fool, a fool would say, you know

nowadays people like it. Don't take your relationship with that

like that with God, or it don't take going to

church like that, or it don't you do it, don't

take that Pentecostal action. I wonder what it looked like

when they started coming out of the porches. They didn't

just act mundane when the spirit of God begin to

trouble the pool, and people can wonder, why do they

act like that in church? It's because God is stirring

the pool. They didn't act gool come out, some of them,

I say, the ones that can walk. Maybe they just

had a withered hand. I wonder if they didn't slap

jump out of the porch. Everyone everybody tries being too

dignified now in church.

When God begin to trouble it, they had to get in.

Hell Elijah. Jesus knew what was in this man's heart.

Jesus tells this man, take up thy bed and walk.

I don't believe that Jesus would ever healed this man

if he.

Didn't knew he had been trying in times past.

He wasn't his first time, because he tells Jesus when

I'm about there, I don't have no one to get

me to the pool. But every time I'm about there,

another steps in before me. Jesus knew this man had

been trying his vest to make it to the poor.

So Jesus tells this man, rise, take up thy bed.

My apologies, rise, let me find verse number eight, and

Jesus saith under him, Rise, take up thy bed and Walkluah.

I don't believe by him, not at all. I do

I believe now when this man's seen Jesus coming, He said,

let me act like I'm trying to get to the pool.

He didn't see Jesus coming and say, there's Jesus. I

better act like I better act like I've been trying

to get in the pool. He didn't. He didn't hear

it going around the people saying, hey, Jesus is coming.

He said, well, we better act like we're watching for

the pool to be troubled. And that's how people are

when revival is called. Now, all of a sudden, it's

time to act like we're praying. Now, all of a sudden,

it's time to get a prayer life. We have to

have a prayer life and a desire up and to

the point. He didn't just get all excited because he's

seen Jesus and try to get in the pool.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

I man. Also, brother Samuel mentioned this, and I believe

it was it's Blindborn and Mais that has said laid

his garments to the side. Blindborn to Mais, he was

ready for the waiting to be over. He had sat

there by the wayside back in so long that when

he began to cry, Jesus and all those people come

to yousa hush, he cried Jesus, And they come to

him and tell him to hush. But he was so

sick and tired up being blind out of said, he

cried all the more louder. Wha, hallelujah. He was so tired.

And that's how we gotta get We gotta be tired

of waiting. I want us all to have that when

the waiting is over. This can be the revival for

me when the when the waiting is over, waitings of

healings of salvation are filled with the holy ghost of naughtings,

as I said, gifts of the spirit. It all can

be poured out when the poets troubled. Hellylujah, hellnlujah.

Another another place my mind went to is the woman

with the issue of blood.

She had a twelve years and she she she she

grew all the more worse, and she had tried every

things she knew to do. She had spent all her money,

she had done what she knew to do, and in herself.

And when I was studying this out, I got to

and Jesus was throng with a multitude, and I got

to think, and she got tired of waiting for the

crowd that was around Jesus to thin out. She got

tired of standing back in the distance and watching those

that were in close proximity to Jesus. I feel like

if you got in the direct presence of Jesus when

he's walking, I'm sure he was just walking and talking.

It may not be et and recorded because the Bible

said the scrolls cannot contain. How do we know then

why he walked? And he was thrown every person that

had something he was healing, And she got tired of

seeing everybody else get what they needed. She could she

she couldn't wait for Jesus, for the crowd to lead

him alone and finding because she wasn't even alloud. She

wasn't even allowed near Jesus. She wasn't even allowed near

the public. But she got tired of waighing because she

tried what man could do. She pushed, She pressed all

three of these people, why wait? Why? What brings them

all together? Were the similarities? They all got tired of

the situation they was in.

Brother Jesse, if you'd come around and this revival, I won't.

I want it to be for each and every one

of us. I believe her. Today's the eighth was the Wednesday.

Wednesday the made three years ago that the waiting was

over for a multitude of us, and how many times.

And I'll confess this happened to me, and it happened

to that man. I'd say he got so heartbroke when

someone beat him in the pool. And I was that close.

I remember seeking for the Holy Ghost, and uh, all

of your life, you get so close, and when the

service is over, you feel heartbroke that you didn't get

at that night. And that's how this man was heartbroken.

But he wasn't helpless. He wanted hill, he tried, but

he didn't have no one. And as I remember that,

I'm sure many people across the house remember that seeking

for the Holy Ghost and you didn't get it that night,

and you wish you. I said, man, what else could

I have done? Should I push the little bit hotter?

Should I pulled? And you go home heartbroken? But I'm

telling you the post troubled. When win is troubled, make sure.

You get in. Let's all come around the altar tonight.

Well, if you take one step, you'll take two. There

ain't or telling what God can do. Don't we don't

worry about your sin. All you've gotta do is take

a step. If you take one step, if you'll take two, he.

Rain, don't let what God can you? Really?

If you'll go, don't worry about yourself. All you gotta

do is just take a self. I'm gonna walk count.

In Jesus' name.

Will I be in false accused, but I'm not ashamed

because I'm God. Faith in God. I won't worry about myself.

Oh I gotta do is take alf Will you take

one step?

You'll take? You will there rain or real? What God

can do? Lorry if you go, don't worry about yourself.

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