In this world there will be trouble. God doesn’t promise to deliver us from this trouble but be with us and deliver us through it! Salvation is free, but our calling will cost us. But we serve a God who sticks closer than a brother! He can do much with little. Our faith doesn’t have to be perfect for God to move on our behalf!

Christianity isn’t a religion but a relationship with the living God. You can’t earn your own way to heaven. Your goodness will never be good enough. May we never forget where we came from or how lost we were when Jesus came to rescue us from our own sinful nature! We still need the power of God! 

Peter’s encounter with Cornelius shows us God’s nature in a multitude of ways, but the main point is this: No matter the audience, the message remained the same: The Gospel of Jesus Christ. May our message to a lost and dying world remain the same. To continually preach Jesus. 

When you have an encounter with God, everything changes. Don’t allow fear get in the way of your obedience to God. You were called by God. Your suffering is not vain. Devote yourself to the Lord!

It’s not what it looks like. There’s more happening than what meets the eye. What looks like defeat is actually God’s hand at work in those unseen places. God’s word cannot and will not return void so don’t stop believing! May Jesus go before us, and may we just preach Christ! 

May we take up a posture today where we don’t worship comfort but become bold to stand out in the midst of wickedness. We can’t blend in the crowd but be willing to stand out and be a witness for Jesus! Don’t defend yourself, defend the Gospel! God gives us the grace to endure the call!

The church isn’t about comfort. We’ve got to shift from this consumer mentality and come out of our convenience and focus on the mission that’s at hand. The great commission is still our mission. May we return to the bold, loving, and truthful preaching of the gospel!

Acts Chapter 5 encourages believers to live with integrity: God doesn’t benefit from deceit. Rely on the Holy Spirit: When the Holy Spirit goes to work in our lives, wonderful, even miraculous things can happen! Remain faithful under persecution: May we become a people that we can praise in the opportunity to suffer in the name of Jesus! And trust in God's sovereign plans: God didn’t promise us peace in our comfort. He promised us peace in his presence!

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things! The Gospels transformative power can’t be thwarted by human efforts! We it is by grace through faith in which we are saved and there is no other name but Jesus! May will live with a great boldness and be effective witnesses for the name above all names!

Like the lame man, many of us don’t want to change or be transformed, but want the blessing where we are. God doesn’t work like that. He isn’t just going to comfort you in your condition but deliver you out of it! God is able, and He will. But even if He doesn’t, He’s still worthy of our praise!