November 5

God give me miracles! Work signs and wonders by my hand! Glorify yourself and your Son with healings and deliverances! Those who doubted couldn’t argue with the eyes of a blind man being opened. BUT, they still wouldn’t believe. YET, there were plenty of others who saw and heard and did believe!

The familiar shepherd passage stuck out to me, especially where Jesus said that the hired hand flees when the wolf comes. Am I a hired hand? Will I flee in the face of opposition? I don’t want to – that is for sure. Then I began to think about it… I am not a hired hand, I am one with the shepherd! I have the shepherd’s heart for the sheep and within me is the propensity and ability to stand up to the wolves and lay my life down for the sheep. Jesus, I want to be like you – able to say it so straight that people want to kill me, but willing to lay my life down for the sheep.

Acts 4:29-30 (NIV)
29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.
30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”