Is there something that you’ve been living (or dealing) with that you wish you could change? My answer…ABSOLUTELY!

“I have no silver or gold” Peter told him “but what I have I give you.”

You see Peter couldn’t give the man what he wanted but through the power of the Holy Spirit he could give him something even better.

“In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk!”

Taking the man by the right hand, Peter raised him up from the ground. Immediately the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

Can you imagine what was going through the mind of the crippled man? This guy had been begging for money just a few short moments before with no hope of ever moving on his own and now, in an instant, he was walking and leaping and praising God! Peter gave him something much more important than money…he gave him the use of his legs.

We tend to do the same thing don’t we? We ask God to solve a small problem. I can see the problem right in front of me, but it’s not small at all…to me it’s a major crisis. The truth is, God wants to give us something better than what we can see with our eyes. Instead of solving our one problem, he wants to give us a new life and solve all of our problems.

We may ask God for what we want but we can never be too surprised when He gives us what we need instead.

Acts 3 : 1 – 10 (NCV) One day Peter and John went to the Temple at three o’clock, the time set each day for the afternoon prayer service. There, at the Temple gate called Beautiful Gate, was a man who had been crippled all his life. Every day he was carried to this gate to beg for money from the people going into the Temple.  The man saw Peter and John going into the Temple and asked them for money.  Peter and John looked straight at him and said, “Look at us!”  The man looked at them, thinking they were going to give him some money.  But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold, but I do have something else I can give you. By the power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, stand up and walk!”  Then Peter took the man’s right hand and lifted him up. Immediately the man’s feet and ankles became strong.  He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk. He went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God.  All the people recognized him as the crippled man who always sat by the Beautiful Gate begging for money. Now they saw this same man walking and praising God, and they were amazed. They wondered how this could happen.