Through Faith In His Name

Grace and Peace be multiplied unto you, through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. Beloved, allow me to thank you for visiting this blog site and allow

ing me speak life to you in this manner. Thank you for your comments and for reposting the blogs as you feel led. I so appreciate the love. Today’s posting was late and I apologize. My day has been extremely hectic, but I do resolve to do better. Pray for me. Today allow me to encourage you. You can get what you need through faith in his name. Let’s look
at the text:

KJV

Acts 3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

NLT
Acts 3:16 ¶ “Through faith in the name of Jesus, this man was healed—and you know how crippled he was before. Faith in Jesus’ name has healed him before your very eyes.

Today I want you to know that God is telling us that we, today, this week, this year, we will get what we need through faith in his name. There is power in the name of Jesus and this passage allows us to look at what is available. Also it teaches us of how important it is to give God credit. At this point in the text, Peter is preaching and giving an explanation for this miracle. Some thought that he would proffer some difficult reason why this miracle has happened. Maybe give them some biological/medical reason for this event. The proverbial “what had happened was”.

The Apostle proffers this simple, almost comical explanation for this miraculous event. Belief in his name. Even today, when we look over our own lives and try to come up with some postulation regarding some facet of success in our lives. We invariably have to conclude that God really is the reason for our success. Faith in God is the reason that something that could not have been done all our life, happened with a word. Let’s think about this. What has eluded you all your life. Actual problems that have physical ramifications are resolved by faith.

Pastor Peter words it rather interestingly, he said through faith achieved what no medical practitioner could achieve. Through faith that which was defined as bad luck, the way things are, the way I was born is turned into a testimony. But we need to realize the admonition of the Apostle, through faith. Our miracles come through faith. We cannot be on the other side of faith looking in. We need to go through the process of faith. Faith means we need to expect the unreasonable. Some things we have no reason to believe God for. Some things make sense to just deal with. Faith looks at what makes sense and says I believe God anyway, today, now. Remember the text, not only did the man who was born lame know he was lame, the entire community knew he was lame.

Are you ready to defy logic and believe God? Not only do you know the limitation of your circumstance but also the entire community knows what you cannot do, but also here is the word of the LORD for you today, Through Faith anything can happen. Anything you need, anything you want from God can happen through faith. Believe the unbelievable and expect the un-expectable.

The Year of Refreshing. Today God is offering a refreshing of your faith.

Plan to bring someone with you to church. I look forward to seeing you all tonight at bible study and on Sunday the 13th of January 2013. I am looking for you.

Live Life on Purpose and not By Mistake,
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon
pastor@ihpfwc.org
www.ihpfwc.org