Once, two Christians were going to a place of public prayer.
On the way, they met a beggar.
The beggar had never been able to walk.
He asked the Christians for money.
One of them said to the man, “Look at us.”
The beggar expected the Christian to give him money.
But the Christian said to the beggar...
“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.” Immediately, the beggar’s bones received strength. The beggar entered the place of public prayer with the men. He was walking, leaping, and praising God. When the people saw him walking and praising God, they were amazed, because they knew that he was the beggar that was previously lame.
Since there were many people there who did not believe in Jesus, the Christian began telling all the people around him the story of Jesus. He told the crowd that the beggar’s healing was achieved through faith in name of Jesus. He said, “Faith in Jesus gave this man perfect wholeness.”
The Christian urged the people to repent and be converted so that their sins would be forgiven and so that they too could receive the refreshing presence of Jesus.
Before the Christians could finish speaking, authorities arrested them and placed them in detention for the night.
While on trial, the Christians proclaimed that the lame was healed by the power of the name of Jesus Christ.
They proclaimed that salvation is in the name of Jesus.
After threatening them, the authorities released them.
The authorities could not punish the Christians since the whole community was glorifying God due to the miracle.
The man that Jesus healed was over forty years old.
About 5,000 men believed in Jesus from that incident. [1]
“Thank You Jesus for the faith that You gave Peter and John that day, please help us Christians in 2020 to have the same assurance of faith in Your Name so that more people will see and hear the power of Your Name and believe in You. For it is in Your Name that we pray. Amen.”
[1] Acts 3:1 - 4:21
21st Century Jeremiah is a publishing site that is managed and operated by Mark Czanderna for the expressed purpose to provide for you free Bible-based and Christ-exalting resources. My goal is to align myself with the prophetic words of God as carefully and accurately as Jeremiah the prophet did in his day, but include the additional revelations that the Lord Jesus Christ provided for us in the Gospels, the Book of Acts, the Epistles of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation.
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