Get Up and Walk

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 the Temple (“church”) to pray, they saw a beggar, a man who’d been cripple from birth sat at the Temple’s gate.  Peter, like most of us, didn’t have earthly riches, so he said to the hopeless man, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you.  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk” (3:6).  Peter gave what he had … access to Jesus.  By the good news Peter had been born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit, … and given God’s power to share and witness in a fantastic manner the complete healing found in Jesus.  He was no different than you or me.   

Jesus gives all believers – Peter … you – the power to be witnesses (Acts 1:8) no matter where we are or go.  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 (Matt. 10:7) with the resurrection power of Christ Jesus! That’s all we have at our disposal for being a witness. …  

Except  … your willingness and compassion to witness, and to:  take people by the hand, help them up, that they may instantly receive the gospel, receive spiritual healing, receive the power of the resurrection … and receive healing of body, and see the wonders manifest by God as you stop to help them up.  If God is in you, then you are like Peter and release the power of Lord’s Spirit by speaking, “So be it in the Name of Jesus.”  And then, simply, take the crippled, the spiritually dead, by the hand and help them up.  So be it, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.”

Let's Walk Together,

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