ALWAYS POINTING TO JESUS (continued) Acts 3:1-11
Greetings in Jesus name:
Realizing the need for us to cover each part of this study of acts well I want to take a different area each week and focus on magnifying the truth found in that scripture. Acts 3: leads us through the process of the miracle given by God to Peter and John at the gate at the Temple called Beautiful where the beggar was healed. For perhaps the first time Peter began to realize the power of the Holy Spirit was to be found in his daily life, and not just on special occasions. For perhaps the first time he began to see and feel what that perfect peace was that is found in the book of Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep him in perfect peace, where mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you" Our major need is in always keeping our mind and our heart on Jesus...that is where our perfect peace comes from.
Jesus has promised that we would have a continued comforter in the Holy Spirit so we can know that the power of God can work through us at any time that He desires to. I want for you to catch that he will work through any time that HE desires to. Many times we get confused about who is in charge of our life...us or God's Spirit? Our need is to allow God complete control over what we do and where we do it. In peter and John's case Acts 3: 1-11 we find Peter seemed to understand finally that it was not the things of this world that lead to healing, but rather spiritual healing first. " Silver and Gold have I none...but such as I have I give to you; rise and be healed" Peter had the power of God's Spirit within him. It was that power that he gave to the man, and it was the direct work of God's Spirit that healed the man for the purpose of creating a witness and a platform for Peter to use to point again to Jesus as Lord and Savior.
In the last few months I have seen people in Christ go through more suffering than at any other time because of the attacks of the enemy of God on their life. Every time they take a stand for Christ the world seems to crash down on them. It is always hard to know what to say or do because each one of us is limited so we can only help so much. The answer is in each member of Christ's body stepping in to help in the best ways they have been given to help. These are the gifts that come from God's Spirit to us to be stewards over, and what ever we have been given to use must always point to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. One gives wisdom or teaching, another aid given through finances and what God has blessed them with, and yet another through the heart of mercy or forgiveness they have been given as a gift to use from Christ our Lord. Peter used the gift that he had been given that day to restore a life that for 40 years had been the worst kind of existence imaginable.
Peter was given the ability to bind or lose anything on heaven and earth through the power of God's Spirit within him. He was a good steward of that gift. What gift are we being given today that could possibly edify the church and point to Christ? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Realizing the need for us to cover each part of this study of acts well I want to take a different area each week and focus on magnifying the truth found in that scripture. Acts 3: leads us through the process of the miracle given by God to Peter and John at the gate at the Temple called Beautiful where the beggar was healed. For perhaps the first time Peter began to realize the power of the Holy Spirit was to be found in his daily life, and not just on special occasions. For perhaps the first time he began to see and feel what that perfect peace was that is found in the book of Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep him in perfect peace, where mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you" Our major need is in always keeping our mind and our heart on Jesus...that is where our perfect peace comes from.
Jesus has promised that we would have a continued comforter in the Holy Spirit so we can know that the power of God can work through us at any time that He desires to. I want for you to catch that he will work through any time that HE desires to. Many times we get confused about who is in charge of our life...us or God's Spirit? Our need is to allow God complete control over what we do and where we do it. In peter and John's case Acts 3: 1-11 we find Peter seemed to understand finally that it was not the things of this world that lead to healing, but rather spiritual healing first. " Silver and Gold have I none...but such as I have I give to you; rise and be healed" Peter had the power of God's Spirit within him. It was that power that he gave to the man, and it was the direct work of God's Spirit that healed the man for the purpose of creating a witness and a platform for Peter to use to point again to Jesus as Lord and Savior.
In the last few months I have seen people in Christ go through more suffering than at any other time because of the attacks of the enemy of God on their life. Every time they take a stand for Christ the world seems to crash down on them. It is always hard to know what to say or do because each one of us is limited so we can only help so much. The answer is in each member of Christ's body stepping in to help in the best ways they have been given to help. These are the gifts that come from God's Spirit to us to be stewards over, and what ever we have been given to use must always point to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. One gives wisdom or teaching, another aid given through finances and what God has blessed them with, and yet another through the heart of mercy or forgiveness they have been given as a gift to use from Christ our Lord. Peter used the gift that he had been given that day to restore a life that for 40 years had been the worst kind of existence imaginable.
Peter was given the ability to bind or lose anything on heaven and earth through the power of God's Spirit within him. He was a good steward of that gift. What gift are we being given today that could possibly edify the church and point to Christ? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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