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APOSTOLIC MIRACLE
TUESDAY, JULY 28
Acts 3:2-8

Matthew 10:5-10

 

“Provide neither gold,

nor silver, nor brass in your purses.”

 

APOSTOLIC MIRACLE
 
Another virtue that the disciples learned from the Lord Jesus was His compassion towards the sick. He healed many. Wherever our Lord went, He always had followers: both those who needed healing and those who just wanted to see healing. The loving heart of the Master now appeared in the heart of His disciples.
 
The impossible condition: Luke described the man as one who had been lame since conception, i.e. he was born lame. This condition is impossible to restore even in today’s best medical or surgical approaches. The lame man’s only means of sustenance was the alms from the people. His healing required power far beyond man’s imagination. It needed a supernatural force to cause the man to walk as he had never experienced walking. The fact that this man was born lame, and so had limbs which were atrophied, enhanced the force of the miracle.
 
The impossible expectation: Peter and John did not have any medical training and, by human standards, these Apostles had no power whatsoever to restore the lame man. The lame man also did not expect healing from them. He never would have imagined he could be given a normal body. His expectation was just a certain amount of alms, for he had been begging the past forty years! Peter and John plainly told him, “Silver and gold have I none” (Acts 3:6). This was the clean and unblameable life of the Apostles. They had not profited from the flock.
 
The impossible restoration: Peter told the man that they did not have money, but that he could give him what they had, i.e. the Lord Jesus Christ. Then Peter pronounced, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6). Luke described specifically how the feet and ankle bones (i.e. the soles of the feet) were strengthened. The healing was instant. The man, without any walking experience, leapt up, stood, walked, and praised God (Acts 3:8)!
 
Do you believe in the power of God to heal? Do you pray when someone is sick? Do you believe that only God can heal you?
 
THOUGHT: Do I doubt the healing power of God?

PRAYER: Father, keep me and my family from harm and danger.

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