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“… more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.” Acts 5:14 (NIV)

Have you ever been in a mob of people, where there is so much talking and shouting that you have trouble differentiating the voice of those familiar to you from the voices of those in the crowd?

I was reading from Acts 5 yesterday and re-read the portion where the apostles were performing miraculous signs and wonders among the people. I was trying to picture the mob standing there, anxiously awaiting a miracle before they returned home. The crowd was said to increase in numbers very quickly, as the people believed in the Lord, and as the number of believers increased, so increased the number of those being brought into the streets to receive prayer. The need was great, but the people believed that even if only Peter’s shadow would fall on them when he passed by, they would be healed. Wow!!!

Friends, I don’t know about you, but I would consider it an honor to be so full of the Holy Spirit that my prayers would be answered and if I touched someone in need, they would be healed. I cannot fathom such power as described in this passage, that someone’s shadow would fall on a person in need and that person would be healed.

Sometimes our faith seems so great that we can see miracles happen right before our eyes and at other times, we seem to struggle to just believe. Yet, the same God who uses His vessels to bless others will enable us, according to His will, to perform miracles that we would never be able to see without His intervention.

Life is so full of abrupt surprises at times, and the shock of some of those surprises seem to shift our focus from having a lot of faith, to succumbing to doubt. Have you gone back and forth in your belief? If so, I wish to remind you that God can use you and He will, if you believe. We are His vessels and He will use us according to His will, if we yield our own will to His.

 
“Dear God, make me an instrument in Your hands, to be used by You.”

For His Glory

Luska Natali
TRBC Women’s Life