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Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”
When we look at a statement like this we may think of various things. We could think of the glory that Peter must have got for doing this, or the love he must have had for them, or the way people must have thought well of him.
But when we read through the verse and see what Peter was doing we begin to realise just how much faith he had in Christ!
Peter was not looking for gratification or glory. Peter was showing others what Christ could do for them if they trusted Him the same as they were trusting Peter. Peter’s trust was firmly in Christ’s hands.
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Acts 4:30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
I don’t know if you have had to go to the doctors recently but much of the time they are only able to guess at what could be wrong and possibly give you something to lessen the discomfort but not to totally heal you.
But these men were being given the power to go forward and to heal people just because they were doing it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!
Our God is a God of miracles and a God of the living, not a god who needs your money or you send the dead to…
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Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this.”
I don’t know what the hottest place is that you have seen or even been in. I can think of some pretty hot days I have experienced in Africa but nothing will ever get close to the heat that was belching out of this furnace on this day.
The guards who tossed the three men into the furnace were consumed by the fire as the stood close to it; and yet God made sure that they were not touched even by the smell of the fire!
God is awesome! Sometimes we just need to be reminded!
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John 19:30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
How long will you continue to do things for God? How long will you continue to try to uphold God’s Law? What do you use as a benchmark for what you should do?
So many questions but by reading our bibles we can clearly see what the answer should be as Jesus has given us the ultimate example of what we need to aim for.
Christ continued to do everything that had to be done right up until the last item on the agenda had been completed, then He said “It is finished!” and laid down His life there and then.
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John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Is Jesus your example or do you just see Him as your Lord? Christ came down to earth to live and die as a man so that he could be a fuller example for us.
In His ministry He gave us many examples of how we should live and reminded us that we do need to live for God and not for ourselves. It is God who should be getting all the glory and not us.
Jesus came to do and follow the will of God the Father because that is what God had planned from the beginning; trying to go against God’s will is just not going to work – working with God will always work!
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John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Though our salvation does not rely on us being able to keep God’s commandments it is of great importance to us that we aim to do so to ensure that they are observed by us.
If we simply ignored them because we are saved by His grace then we make them of no affect; but by keeping them we bring them to our minds and hearts every day, bringing Christ closer to our hearts as we do.
God wants to show us His love and when we walk closer with Him by observing His law we will find that He can do more for us as well.
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Hebrews 5:8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Even though Jesus was (and is) the Son of God and was always obedient to Him, He also showed that He was obedient to His own suffering and death on the cross.
It was well within His power to end the suffering, skip the death and still be with God in heaven, but He chose to not ignore all those terrible things and suffer them for our cause.
This was a voluntary step He took forward on our behalf to prove His love for us and to prove the Father’s love for us by giving us eternal hope, peace and life with Him. We are not exempt from suffering either!
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Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire – but my ears you have opened; – burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
What surprised me when I first read it a long time ago was these words in the Old Testament. I had not thought of God’s requirements but rather what man had been doing for Him.
Because man had continued to sacrifice whether he had meant it or not the meaning had gone out of the sinless sacrifices being made all the time.
God has never required physical sacrifices but rather has asked for sacrifices from the heart that mean so much more. Jesus came as our sacrifice because of His great love for us. He wants us to show Him our love through our actions but from our hearts.
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Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.
Are there times when you keep hearing the same things over and over again; maybe you are thinking back to being a bit younger and your parents telling you things over and over again?
God’s Word has remained the same from the beginning and will remain the same right up until the end of time because it simply does not change. We change so we think everything else should…
God spoke His word once. We repeat it to each other and change a few things now and again, but that original word that we must always go back to has remained God’s Word. His power alone has kept His Word constant.
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Daniel 2:20 Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.
When Daniel and his fellow servants were put in a very tight spot, God always came through for them and in this case revealed a dream and its interpretation to him in a dream.
Daniel’s response was to lift up the name of God first of all and acknowledge that all power and might are His and His alone.
Daniel knew that he was in the position he was because of God and His omnipotence; Daniel never had a big head over what he achieved because he knew it was God working through him and not anything he had done alone!
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Matthew 14:9 And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.
How far are you willing to go just to make sure that you keep your word to someone else? Are you willing to break the law just to please a friend?
If we look back on our lives we will find many times when we have done something wrong just to please a friend; we have gone against God’s laws just to please a person.
God does not want us to spread lies but to spread the truth and that means holding on to that truth even when it comes down to being between a rock and a hard place. Obey God!
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Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.
God gives us instructions and with those instruction gives us consequences if we disobey them; He continues to uphold those instructions and those consequences no matter what we think!
When God gave this instruction to Adam it was not a story but a promise of what was going to happen. The serpent came along and persuaded Eve through temptation to ignore the consequences.
It was Adam and Eve who had to face the consequences of disobeying God because He gave that instruction to them.
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Psalm 105:15 Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.”
When God makes promises we can be sure that He is going to keep them. We already have thousands of years of proof as we look back on the results of those promises kept.
We can study the promises as told to the people by the prophets and then see the results as told by those who followed on, written down and told by different people.
Our bibles are full of these truths so that we can be strengthened in the knowledge that God is looking after us here and now as well! This is not just a history lesson but a book of promises told, kept and still to come…
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Matthew 18:3 and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
When we look deeper into passages like this by finding out what the original Greek text says we find so much more than what our English words can express.
We need to turn our backs on seeking the worldly grandeur and outward experiences of this world and go back to looking at what God has given us just as children would.
Children humbly accept what is given in faith and trust not concerning themselves with the grandeur but with the simpler things that mean more.
Seeking God? Well actually seek Him!
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Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”
Satan will always attack at what he thinks is the weakest point; and most of the time that is going to be our faith…
Christ could see what the evil one was trying to do in Simon Peter’s life and issued him a warning here. We need to take heed of all warnings that Christ gives us so that we are ready for battle.
We cannot win the battles by ourselves, but we can rise up when we allow Christ to strengthen us and guide us; then we can walk proud with Christ and help to strengthen others!
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Job 1:12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Have you ever wondered at why God would allow Satan to do to Job all that he did do? Could you ever think of it as being out of love?
You may struggle to think how this could be done out of love, after all, Job was about to lose it all…
God was trying to show Satan that Job’s love could shine even brighter at times when we would think that our lights would go out. Trust in the Lord with all your might!
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Matthew 21:32 For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
It is not our position in life that is going to make the difference as to whether we get to heaven; it is our belief in Christ alone that will secure that hope.
We may think that we are better than others who were dreadful sinners, but unless we turn to Christ we are as guilty as them for the so called “minor sins” we have in our lives.
Our repentance and belief in Christ secures our passage to heaven and not our good works or charitable deeds; they come from believing not the other way round!
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2 Timothy 2:25 Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
How many times have you just said what is on your mind or hit back at someone before they had time to even think what they had done to you?
We all get upset and retaliate before we have a chance to say what should be said instead of what is on the tips of our tongues! God does not want us to ignore what is wrong but to do what is right.
That may mean telling others that something is wrong kindly instead of starting an fight just because they are wrong. Try and think “What Would Jesus Do” before your strike out…
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Matthew 13:15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”
It is sad to see so many people turn their backs on God when something goes wrong in the world. It is sad to see so many people stay out of church because they think other things are more important.
Just like the people grew cold and far from God back then, people today are growing colder and further from God through their own choices.
God wants us to be close so that we can hear His Word, feed on His Word and accept His love.
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Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
There are so many times when we lift up our prayers and expect God to answer them no matter what. There are so many times when we turn round and blame God for what has happened in our lives.
But how many times do we examine our own lives and see if we are the reason why God cannot come closer to us? Sometimes we just need to sort ourselves out first of all so that we can draw closer.
I am not talking about saying sorry for the way you have been acting and then giving it to God and allowing Him to help sort things out.