Acts 5:12-16

Read Acts 5:12‐16 slowly and prayerfully. What words or phrases stand out for you?



     Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. 13None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. 14Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, 15so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. 16A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.


Reflect
What is the last sign and wonder you have witnessed? In your life? In your faith community? In our Annual Conference?


Why were believers being added more than ever?


How might you and your congregation better position yourself to be instruments of God’s healing?


Respond


Engage in an act of healing with Holy Spirit power and alleviate someone’s suffering today.


Pray that God might bring someone into your life today that needs some kind of healing or relief from suffering. Pray for the courage and insight to respond so that the healing power of the Holy Spirit shines more brightly.