Peter had been filled with the Holy Spirit. A crowd gathered outside the house where this occurred. Peter went out and spoke to that crowd. (NASB) Acts 23:22-24 “‘Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through […]
Peter boldly spoke to a crowd who had gathered outside a house in Jerusalem. The living God had sent His Holy Spirit to all within that house. Who were they? They were followers of the risen Lord Jesus Christ. They had been given the ability to speak in various languages. They were speaking the […]
Consider Peter, a disciple chosen by Jesus.In the last hours of Jesus’ life, Peter had tried to defend Jesus from being arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane. (John 8:10-11) After Jesus was arrested and led away, Peter followed at a distance (Matthew 27:57-58). Peter denied knowing Jesus three times, as Jesus said he […]
Jesus said, “For where two or three have gathered together in my name, I am there in their midst.” Matthew 18:20 NASB Shall we pray… The prayer of the week is based on John 14:16-17 Jesus, You asked Your Father to give all who receive You as their Savior a Helper, a Counselor, [the […]
Waiting…waiting…many times is hard. We become impatient, surly, prickly, difficult to be around…while we wait. Waiting to be doing something other than what we feel we’re trapped in at this time in our lives. Many times as we wait, we grit our teeth, every day! What did the resurrected Lord Jesus say to […]
When you have a situation in which you have no power to solve or change, what do you do? Followers of Christ, would you agree we should pray first? Jesus was traveling from Judea and came into Galilee. In fact, He went to the town of Cana in Galilee where He had made water into […]
What was the “clincher” for the Samaritan woman to believe Jesus that He was Messiah?John 4:18 gives the answer: Jesus knew of her past five husbands and the man she was living with at the time was not her husband. And that did not stop Jesus from telling her He was the long awaited Messiah. […]
Jesus did not let this “teachable moment” slip by, even though He was weary at the end of the day. John 4:6 The disciples were sent into the nearest town, Sychar, Samaria for food. In the meantime, Jesus had an important conversation with a Samaritan woman. John 4:7-26The woman left her waterpot and went into […]
Have you entered a room or approached others in the middle of their conversation – not knowing what was being talked about and discussed? This happened to Jesus’ disciples. They were in the town of Sychar, buying food for an evening meal. They went back to where they left Jesus, sitting beside a well of […]
Jesus was weary at the end of a day, He sat down beside an old well in Samaria. A woman comes to draw water and Jesus asks for a drink. Then Jesus takes the conversation to a spiritual level about living water. Again, Jesus shifts onto a higher level and gets really personal.NASB John 4:16-20 […]