Obstacles are sometimes hard to overcome; they can cause people to quit trying, or they can cause people to develop more determination than ever!

Mark 2:4 talks about an obstacle. A friend was sick, unable to walk and needed the healing touch of the Lord. Yet because of the throngs of people it seemed to be an impossibility to reach Him. Immediately the friends tried to find a way to reach the Lord regardless of what they had to do! Finally, they climbed up on the rooftop, removed some of the tiles, and lowered their friend down to where Jesus was . . . to receive from Him a healing touch.

"And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay." (Mark 2:4)

Sometimes it takes determination and fervency in our requests for help of any kind...