SCRIPTURE: Acts (NIV) 5:12 The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 No-one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. 15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. 16 Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them were healed.
OBSERVATION: Ever since I was a young boy in church and heard the stories in the gospels and the book of Acts, I believed that God could do the same today. Believing in God’s miracle-working power was unquestionable to me.
And now, for the past two years, I have been receiving reports every week, many times two or three each week, of miracles just like in the New Testament days. Healings, and miracles, salvations, and water baptisms.
APPLICATION: The prayers that have been prayed for Africa, the lives that died in carrying the gospel to Africa, the missionaries who have been buried there—they are all seeds sown into the fertile African earth. They are starting to sprout, and the African church is coming alive to the glory of God!
Like the early church, they are short on Bibles, but full of the Holy Spirit who is the author of the Bible! Many new believers gather three times each week, and many receive the SOAPs as a daily text message on their phone.
PRAYER: Lord, we pray for Pastors Ezekiel and Elijah who are from Sierra Leone but are now in Guinea-Conakry doing water baptisms. We pray for Pastor John and the SOAP ministry team in Guinea. Give them a strong anointing as they minister to people who are being saved as they watch the baptisms and your healing power moving among them! May you be glorified in their ministry as You do what only You can do! Amen
Pastor Leon
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