DAY 369 - The Boy Who Is Miraculously Healed Is 11 Years Old (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

I am going to pray for Leslie again today.

I would like you to pray for Leslie at 10:15a.m.(Vancouver time) for one minute joining my prayer to pray for his 

complete healing. Please, 10:15a.m. for one minute!

Today's Reading: Acts 4:13-22

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Please click this link to read Acts 4:13-22

• English(ESV): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts 3&version=ESV
• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts 3&version=CUV

Bible Study

      Do you really believe healing is happening in this age? Next week our every Wednesday 3:30p.m. Chinese Seafood Restaurant Church "Emmanuel 330" will be on the Alpha session  "Does God heal today". Actually, for those who are reading this blog, the whole week since last Friday we have been praying for Leslie. It's all about healing, healing and healing! Is that a coincidence?

     Today's passage gives us a good look at the power and fruit of healing. Even the authorities admitted that they did perform a miracle(v.16) and people were spreading this good news. It also shows clearly that we need to listen and obey to God than anyone so that we can be used by God in a very special way to bring healing and freedom. 

     N.T. Wright says(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright):

     ...the people making the claim in the name of Jesus have already shown that they are living by it, and that it has power, kingdom-power, healing power.  It makes the lame walk, just like Jesus did.  Paul put it crisply: the kingdom of God is not about talk, but about power (1 Corinthians 4:20).  Where God's power is at work to bring real change, real healing, real new life...

N.T. Wright. Acts for Everyone, Part 1. Louisville,KY:Westminster John Knox Press, 2008, p.69.

     Do you have that courage to claim the healing power in the name of Jesus today and everyday?

                      

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

     What I heard from Jesus today is: The boy who is miraculously healed is 11 years old

    What I got from Jesus is an invitation for you to join me in prayers for one minute at 10:15a.m. today as I will be in the ICU praying for Leslie at that time. This is the first time in my life that I received a way to pray for someone at the same time through out the world. I have people from 98 countries reading this blog/podcast but I will never know how many will pray at that time, 10:15a.m.(Vancouver time today) for Leslie. 

    When I read verse 22 "For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old", I got a feeling that if we make that claim just like how Peter and John did saying together, "Leslie, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, be healed." 

    I do hope and pray that in a few days later today's title "the Boy who is miraculously healed is 11 years old" will happen. 

         

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to experience that healing happens and give us the courage to make that claim in your Holy and Mighty Name.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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