Saturday, May 29, 2021

BLESSINGS IN THE FORM OF MIRACLES

My Dear Precious Child,
    After My new covenant of the Holy Spirit flooded new Life and love into My children of promise they met regularly every day for prayers in the temple, at three o'clock one afternoon Peter and John were on their way to the temple when they observed a certain crippled man who was crippled since birth begging for money at the gate called Beautiful.  When the man saw the two disciples entering the gate he asked for money.  Peter and John gazed intently at him and told him to look at them.  The crippled man stared at them, hoping to get something from them.  Peter told him that he had no money to give to him, but what he did have was a gift.  He told the man in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to rise up and walk.  Peter took the man's hand with a firm grip and raised him up.  At once the man's ankles became strong and the man leaped forth and walked, going in the temple with them walking with them and praising God.  All of the people in the temple saw him and recognized him as the man who regularly begged money at the gate.  They were amazed and bewildered at what had happened to the man.  While the man still clung to Peter and John the other people crowded together in the crowded porch.  
    Peter addressed the crowd and told them that they should not be surprised at what they saw when they stared at the man walking.  He assured them that their own piety had not done the miracle but that I, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of their forefathers, had glorified His Son Jesus Christ, whom they had disowned to Pilate when he had determined to let Him go.  Peter told the crowd that they had declared a murderer be released instead of Jesus Christ.  He confessed that it was faith in the name of Jesus Christ that had given the man perfect soundness of his body.  
    He assured the people that what they had done to Jesus was done in ignorance, as did their rulers because it has always been prophesied that Jesus would go through the horrors that He had gone through for humanity.  Peter told the people in the temple to repent, to change their devotions to God, so that their sins would be blotted out and wiped clean so that they could come into the presence of God.   Peter assured the people that I would send the Christ into them who was named Jesus.   He quoted Moses who had said that I would raise up a prophet from their descendants and that they must listen to Him, the man Jesus Christ.   He assured them that everyone who listened to and understood the words of Jesus Christ would have life and those who did not listen to Him would be exterminated life because of the evil that they did.  
     Peter, in his usual eloquence, assured the people in the crowd that they were descendants of the prophets and heirs to the covenant which God made with Abraham when I declared that His family would be blessed in the earth.  He challenged them by saying that Jesus Christ, when He was raised from the dead by Me, was sent to bless them and turn them from their evil ways so that they could be blessed. (Acts 3)
     The covenant that I made with Abraham had an "if" in the covenant, that I would bless His families "if" they continued in loyalty to Me and My family.   If they left Me to serve other gods, they broke our covenant and made it null and void.  That happened over and over in the intervening years between the old covenant and the coming My new covenant of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ, who was the real descendant whom I had declared would bring liberty and life to My children who honored our relationship enough to remain loyal to Me.  
     The Holy Spirit-filled disciples and children of promise became those people, filled with Christ Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit.   Salvation had come to earth.  The crippled man had received the blessing of My miracle in His ability to walk for the first time in his life through faith in the name of Jesus Christ.
     Miracles, praises and new Life abounded through the disciples who had become temples of My Holy Spirit in the earth through their becoming new creatures in the name of Jesus Christ after His own ministry of being My image in the earth.   Just like Jesus Christ was My image to the world, My children of promise are now My image in the world.
    Your Father of Miraculous Events

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