1. Luk 5:17 One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and religion teachers were sitting around. They had come from nearly every village in Galilee and Judea, even as far away as Jerusalem, to be there.

So up to this point we have only heard about all the rumours going out about Jesus, so the critics came first. I’m sure God told Jesus in His alone time that this will happen. Please Lord Jesus warn us before hand when we will attract the critics in our live, so that we can be prepared. We will attract crowds to us as we walk closer to God. 

2. Luk 5:20 Seeing the demonstration of their faith

Teach us daily how to demonstrate the big faith like the four friends. We know that only faith can impress you, so please teach us daily new ways of showing and manifesting this big faith that impresses You. I know that you have storerooms full of inspiration for us to demonstrate big faith, the faith that actually impresses you, please teach this to us. Just like in a romantic movie where the hero at the end of the movie demonstrates this big gesture of romance, I want to do it for you, I want to demonstrate the big romantic gestures of faith, please inspire me.