Command the Raven

Acts 3:6 [show/hide]Acts 3:6 [6]But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!" (ESV)

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.

Have you ever noticed in your New Testament how the Lord Jesus likes to deal with long-standing complaints? How many instances there are of men and women who for years had been bound by infirmity and sin, and were crippled and helpless and hopeless, until the risen Lord came. Just one instance: when Peter and John came to the man who had been lame from birth, Peter looked at him and said, ‘Silver and gold have I none’ – the Church boasted in its bankruptcy in those days – ‘but such as I have I give thee: in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.’ And immediately the man leaped to his feet, delivered in the power of the risen Christ.

I want to say to you in the name of the Lord Jesus, there is no habit that has gone so deep but that the power of the blood of Jesus can go deeper; and there is no entrenchment of sin that has gone so far but that the power of the risen Lord, by His Holy Spirit, can go further. The first mark of sovereignty of Christ in a life is that the habits of years, which have baffled all our struggles, and brought us in shame and confession of failure time and time again to the Lord in contrition and repentance, the power of them is broken when He is upon the throne. – Alan Redpath: When Jesus is Enthroned, 1960
- Daily Thoughts From Keswick