BLESSINGS IN TESTIMONIES

My Dear Precious Child,
    After the man crippled from birth was healed in the name of Jesus Christ, Peter and John were talking to people in the temple about the fact that I had sent Jesus Christ into the world to be the Savior of the world, then the chief priests, the military commander of the people and the Sadducees came upon them.  Those religious and political rulers were completely indignant that Peter and John were saying that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead.  Those political dignitaries arrested the two disciples and put them in prison until the next day.  But the ministry of Peter and John was not over.  Word about the healing of the man who had been blind since birth was shared with people outside of the prison and more people believed on Jesus Christ.  By this time the believers numbered about five thousand.  (Acts 4:1-4)
    The next day the political magistrates, elders and scribes were assembled in Jerusalem including Annas the high priest and three leaders of the high priest's relationships in the temple.   Those religious and political leaders placed Peter and John in front of themselves and asked them by whose power or authority did the healing of the crippled man happen.  Peter, being filled with the Holy Spirit, told those dignitaries that it was through the power and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom they had crucified and whom I had raised from the dead, that it was by Him and through Him and by the means of Him that the man was standing before them well and sound in body.  (Acts 4:5-9) Then Peter said that there is no salvation through any other name by which they could be saved from evil, that the stone whom they had rejected, being Jesus Christ, had become the chief cornerstone.  Since the man who had been healed was standing in front of them, the religious and political leaders could not refute the fact that the man had been healed.(Acts 4:10-15)  The leaders told Peter and John to go outside of the council chamber so the religious and political leaders could decide what to do with them.  Their decision was to instruct the disciples not to talk any further about the name of Jesus. (Acts 4:16-18) 
    Peter and John told the leaders that they must decide if it was right in My sight to cease talking about Jesus Christ, but they confessed that they could not stop talking about the things that they had seen.  (Acts 4:19)  The rulers threatened the disciples Peter and John and then let them go because they had no laws under which to arrest them because everybody, not only them, was praising and glorifying Me for what had happened.  The man who had been cured from being crippled was 40 years old at the time. (Acts 4:20-21)   His testimony was unrefuted because he was known as having begged at the gate Beautiful for years and was now healed.
    The political and religious leaders were persecuting the disciples the same way as they had persecuted Jesus Christ, but finding no broken laws they had to let the disciples go, just like Jesus had prophesied to them.  He had told them not to let their hearts be troubled after He was crucified.  When they followed His command and waited to be baptized in My Holy Spirit, they were empowered by My Holy Spirit to respond to persecution and being arrested in the same way as Jesus Christ, without resistance.   The scenario was playing out just like Jesus had prophesied to His disciples.  Curses were being turned into blessings by the disciples having faith in the power of the Holy Spirit that is resident in the name of Jesus Christ.  Praises and glorifying Me and My Son were always the grand results. 
    Your Father of Well Executed Plans.