By Sherita Jones | The Anointing Grace Sis, some of us are waiting for a feeling God never promised. We go to the altar, the conference, the women's retreat, hoping this will be the night something breaks. We want the chills, the tears, the rush. Somewhere along the way our minds were trained to believe that if we didn't feel it, it didn't happen. So we leave the same way we came, still praying, still waiting, still bound. But read the Gospels again. Not one person Jesus set free ever said, "I felt free." The blind saw. The lame walked. The lepers went to show themselves to the priest. Their freedom was proven by what they did, not by what they felt. Thirty-Eight Years by the Water John 5 takes us to the pool of Bethesda, where  "lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water" (John 5:3) . One man had been there thirty-eight years. Thirty-eight years of positioning himself near the miracle and never ...