Category: Gifts of the Spirit
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Acts 26:2-18
If there is one thing that we all understand about patience, it is this: we all want patience – and we all want it right now! It just doesn’t come that way.
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Acts 19:1-17
We should be more active in seeking to find God in our everyday lives, and not wait passively for Him to come to us. God’s love is there for us – we need to open our hearts to it and find the joy that awaits us as the Holy Spirit comes upon us.
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Acts 15:12-29
It’s nearly impossible for us to imagine the enormous significance of the following three things to the Jews of Jesus’ day, and thus the early Jewish followers of Jesus: 1. Circumcision 2. “Clean” vs. “unclean” 3. Being Jewish – not Gentile.
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Acts 9:32-43
Miracles performed by the apostles served a very important purpose: to authenticate their message that Jesus was the one, true Lord and Savior. Jesus came to save sinners and to restore our relationship with God. Peter’s acts are symbolic of the love and mercy that God has for us.
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Acts 8:4-25
For years, Peter and John, and the rest of the disciples, were raised to despise and avoid Samaritans. Now, transformed by the Holy Spirit, they overcame a lifetime of prejudice and hate, and shared the most precious gift they had – the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Acts 6:8-7:1
The Holy Spirit calls us to act, to do. Stephen, “full of grace and power,” was full of the Holy Spirit who fully worked in his life. He carried out God’s purpose by leaning into his gift of speaking. The Holy Spirit is the very means through which we are to accomplish God’s work here on Earth with one another.
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