January 29

The apostle’s (and the believers) were going around preaching in the name of Jesus and doing signs and wonders and miracles! There were three groups of people, the people who wanted it – they wanted to hear, wanted healing, joined the believers publically and knew that they would be rejected by the next two groups. There were the people who were looking on, but not joining in. They would certainly take a prayer for healing, but they weren’t going to join them because of the fear of the last group. These people were not willing to take a stand for Christ because of the cost associated with it. The last group were the religious leaders. They were “jealous” of the apostles who were leading this revival. People were getting saved, healed and delivered from demons. They didn’t like that. They didn’t like the fact that the apostles were blaming them for killing Jesus. They were being indicted because they were guilty of not recognizing Jesus the Messiah!

Today the religious leaders do recognize, for the most part, Jesus as the Messiah, however they are mixing the gospel up with all sorts of stuff and others are missing the Spirit of God’s movement. I am often asked, why don’t the miracles happen in the states like they do in other countries. There are many answers, but how about this one, we are not discerning the Spirit’s move! We don’t allow Him to have His way! We are too busy growing a church.

I for one am in the first group – counting the cost and joining the group publically and wanting the Holy Spirit to save, heal, deliverance and show us the presence of God and His Kingdom in any way He wants to reveal it! How about you?