February 2

How much do you love the book of Acts?! What encouragement! First a fierce opponent of the gospel gets hit by “light” and knocked to the ground. Then a believer prays for his healing and he is healed, and then Paul twice had to escape people who wanted to kill him. What lessons! Then Peter raises up a paralytic and then raises a dead person. I know that this isn’t a “day” in the life, but it does seem to be normal. Visions, healings, raising from the dead, those are the things that happened and I say to us today, happen (in the present tense). Forget about can happen (possibility), but do happen all around the world! Why don’t we hear about it? The same reason most of us don’t that the government has approved genetically altered food and it is really not good for us. If we would read a bit more and expand our life context from being the people that we can see or the people that we know, we would read about modern day miracles that happen regularly. However, even if we don’t have any other reports, it is enough that we have the Word of God! This tells us what is normal and natural for the believer. Let’s look at it again:

• Bright light appears out of nowhere
• Being knocked to the ground
• Blindness in order for a more excellent revelation
• Jesus audibly speaking to a chosen person in a group
• Visions with interactions with Jesus
• Salvation of an ardent adversary of Christ
• Baptism in the Holy Spirit
• Healing blind eyes
• People wanting to kill the messenger
• Divine protection and wisdom
• A completely changed life
• Healing of radical maladies
• Putting mourners outside in order to pray with faith
• Raising people from the dead
• Many people believing in Christ because of miracles with evangelism

These are just a few observations, they are NORMAL Christian living. Our normal living (in this country) has been reduced to living moral and helping people. It is that and so much more! Start renewing your mind right now – this stuff in normal!