📅 Monday, December 22, 2025
BETHESDA — GET AWAY FROM THAT DEAD POOL
“For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool…” “Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool…” John 5:4, 7 (KJV)
🔥 #EXHORTATION
Good morning beloved!
Bethesda was called a place of healing, yet it became a dead pool for many. People gathered around water that only moved occasionally. Hope was tied to seasons, chances, and competition. Many waited, watched, complained—and died in the same condition they arrived with. Not because Bethesda had lost its purpose but because the pool had expired.
A dead pool is not dry water; it is inactive expectation. It is a place where people are waiting for movement instead of responding to instruction. It is where miracles once happened, but faith has become history. Its a place where people are stuck not because God is absent; but because they refuse to move away from systems that no longer work. Because of crowd, and insufficient power, violence, competition and death thrives. Bethesda teaches us a hard truth: experience can become expensive if its not mixed with discernment, obedience and wisdom. We should not depend on yesterday's pattern but on today's revelation.
The impotent man waited 38 years beside water that never healed him. The problem was not the man alone—the problem was the system. Beloved, Jesus is calling you out of the dead pool: Out of expired methods. Out of seasonal hope. Out of borrowed expectations. Out of waiting rooms that God has outgrown. Healing does not happen with expired patterns and doctrines but at the word of God. The word never expires but are new every morning.
If you stay where nothing is happening, you will normalize stagnation and call it patience. But today, mercy is speaking: Get away from that dead pool.
🔍 #REFLECTION
Physically: God redirects you from stagnant spaces to active movement.
Spiritually: Faith shifts from chance-based miracles to word-based obedience.
Emotionally: You are freed from disappointment cycles and comparison fatigue.
Mentally: Your thinking moves from “waiting for change” to “responding to instruction.”
❓ #REFLECTION_QUESTIONS
1. What “dead pool” am I still sitting beside out of habit or fear?
2. Am I waiting for chance instead of obeying God’s present instruction?
3. What old system must I leave to experience new movement?
💎 #FAITH_AFFIRMATIONS
1. “I refuse to remain where nothing is happening.”
2. “I respond to God’s word, not seasonal chances.”
3. “My healing is in obedience, not location.”
🚀 #PROPHETIC_DECLARATIONS
1. I decree that every stagnant system holding me down releases me now. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
2. I disconnect from dead pools and connect to living instructions. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
3. I move from waiting rooms into walking power. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
4. My destiny is no longer tied to chance but to divine command. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
5. I rise and walk away from stagnation permanently. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
✅ #ACTION_PLANS
1. Identify one habit, place, or mindset that has produced no results—step away from it.
2. Ask God for present instruction, not past methods.
3. Act immediately on the last word God gave you.
🙏 #PRAYER
Father, open my eyes to every dead pool I have been sitting beside. Give me the courage to leave what no longer works and the faith to obey Your present word. Disconnect me from stagnation and align me with living instructions. Today, I rise and walk into newness. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
👣 #FOOTPRINTS (Quotable Quotes)
1. “Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” - John 5:8
2. “Staying where nothing changes is not patience—it is permission.” – Anietie Umoete
3. “Healing does not happen with expired patterns and doctrines but at obedience to the word of God..” – Anietie Umoete
#AnietieUmoete | #OurDailyBenefitsDevotional | #Bethesda | #HouseOfMercy | #GetAwayFromThatDeadPool | #RiseAndWalk
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👉 What “dead pool” is God asking you to leave today?
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