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Extraordinary miracles of Paul


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Acts 19:11-12

11 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

Unusual miracles

All miracles are unusual and extraordinary. But Paul is the only one God work unusual miracles

What so special about Paul that God would gave so special anointing and not one of the eleven disciples? Peter also had great anointing. Those who touched his shadow were healed (Acts 5:15).However, God the Holy Spirit did not describe Peter’s anointing as unusual miracles.

Peter was also the only one who could walk on water, but he did not have the special anointing that Paul had.

Who was Saul?

Paul who was previously called Saul (Acts 13:9) had great passion for God in a wrong way. He persecuted the church of Jesus Christ.

He was a Pharisee (Acts 23:6). Paul studied the law and he knew the law inside out. The reason he persecuted the church was because he thought the church was perverting the truth of God (Acts 8:1-3 and 22:4-5).

Jesus revealed Himself to Paul

Jesus knew Paul’s heart for God, so He appeared to him on the road (Acts 9:1-9)

After Paul heard Jesus’ voice and when he asked who Jesus was, he was transformed.

After Paul met Jesus in a supernatural way, and he heard His voice, Paul knew he was misled by the high priest. Paul was blinded (Acts 9:9) and he waited for Ananias a disciple of Jesus to pray for him.

No man can be transformed so drastically without the power of the Holy Spirit. He became from Saul (a persecutor) to Paul (an Apostle of Jesus).

Apostle Paul is the man who walked in the Spirit in his life and he received many revelations from Jesus Himself (2 Corinthians 12:7) that sometimes even Peter could not understand (2 Peter 3:15-16).

2 Corinthians 12:7

7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

2 Peter 3:15-16

15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.



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God ConversationBy Tony Silveira