Take Someone by the Hand

Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up,

and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong.

Acts 3:7

As Peter and John were going to church to pray, they saw a beggar, a man who’d been cripple from birth at the Temple gate.  Peter, like most of us, didn’t have earthly riches, so he said to the hopeless man, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you.  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”  Peter gave everything that he had … access to Jesus.  By the good news Peter had been born again, received the Holy Spirit, and God’s power to share and witness in a fantastic manner.  By sharing the gospel and  complete healing power found in Jesus. 

Jesus gives all believers – yes, Peter, … and you, and I – the power to be witnesses (Acts 1:8).  That power is the Spirit of God filling you in order that you can witness and proclaim the Word of God!  It is the power to enable your hands to be a tool for God’s miracles with the laying on of hands, your being accompanied with signs and wonders of God, and the ability to proclaim with your mouth that the sick be healed in Jesus name.  … O’ Hallelujah! … Wow, dare I say, even to raise the dead with the resurrection power of Christ Jesus! That’s what we have at our disposal as a witness. …  

Unless you are willing and have the compassion to witness, to “take people by the hand, help them up,” they will never instantly receive the gospel, receive spiritual healing, receive the power of the resurrection … And, never could they receive healing of body, and see the wonders manifest by God – unless you stop to help them up.  If God is in you, then you, as Peter did, can release the power of Lord’s Spirit by speaking into the empty the Name of Jesus. 

It is simple, take the crippled, the spiritually dead, by the hand and help them up.  Jesus will do the hard part.  So be it, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,  … “

Take someone by the hand,

Owen <><

Christian empowerment: Mark 16:15-18, Luke 9:1-2, 10:15-20, Acts 1:8, 4:29-33, 5:12, 6:8, 14:3; Romans 15:1-19, 1 Corinthians 2:4-5; Hebrews 2:4, 1 Timothy 1:7 … there is more…