Take Note That I've Spent Time With Jesus

Today’s Reading:  Nehemiah 13; Malachi 1; Malachi 2; Acts 4

SCRIPTURE: Acts 4:13-14

“When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.”

OBSERVATION:

This is what happens when ordinary people experience God. Crazy things happen and people take note that theses ordinary people hang out with Jesus.

Peter has just come off the spiritual slump of his life.  He denied that he ever knew Jesus.  When Jesus gave Peter a second chance, the best Peter could commit to was a second place kind of love.  But Jesus started fresh with Peter right where Peter was and with what Peter could offer.  

Here is Peter who had, not too long ago, denied Christ and is now filled with the Holy Spirit and couldn’t deny Him if he wanted to.  He is preaching life in Christ, healing people, and leading thousands into life in Jesus.  The officials see these ordinary men and take note that they have been with Jesus.

APPLICATION:

If I am going to do anything of eternal significance in this life it has to flow from a relationship with Jesus.  People have to recognize Jesus in me.  There is nothing special outside of that.  God will take me, an ordinary person, and cause people to take note that Jesus is my Lord. Ministry is an overflow of what Jesus is doing in my life.

PRAYER:

Father, thank you that you choose and use ordinary people.  Jesus, you did not come into this world as a man of earthly status and wealth an you continue to show yourself to the world thru ordinary people.  Help me to spend time with you Jesus so that people will take note and give you praise.  As I offer myself to you each day, I pray that others will lose sight of my ordinary self and experience your extraordinary presence.  In Jesus name - AMEN!