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Throw Off Your Garments of Defeat
By Keith A. Butler
August 21
Mark 10:50 - And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. (KJV)
Now, it said a multitude of people was with Jesus. And many charged him, hold your peace. Now, we don’t say “Hold your peace” anymore. We would say, “Shut up!” He cried out and they tried to shut him up.
“Jesus!”
“Shut up!”
“Jesus!”
After Jesus called for him, blind Bartimaeus rose, casting away his garments. In Biblical times, the dress that a person wore identified his station in life. So if you were a beggar, you were considered the scourge of society and you had to wear garments that identified you as a beggar. When Jesus called this man, he got up and took off his garments. You know what he was saying? “I was poor and I was blind. But I’m going to Jesus, and I am no longer poor and blind.” Before he even got to Jesus, he arose and threw off his garment.
Perhaps you need to arise and throw off your garments of defeat, and arise and throw off your garments of “I can’t,” and arise and throw off your garment of “there’s no way.” This man has already made a statement of faith before he got to Jesus. And Jesus replied, “...thy faith has made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.”
Immediately, or suddenly, he received his sight. One second he was blind; the next second he came seeing. But what caused the movement of God was the man’s faith. Jesus said, Thy faith has made thee whole.
Your faith will release the sudden power of God in your life. I mean, you might have been this way for this long period of time, but man, if you stay in faith you are going to have a SUDDENLY. But you are going to have to do what this man did. Throw off your clothes of insufficiency, and go to the throne of Grace expecting to receive from God.
Scripture References: Acts 16:26; Romans 10:13