Letting God Use You

"Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies, so that God will be glorified through Jesus Christ - to Him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen." - 1 Peter 4:11

Isn't it beautiful that God does not make us all conform to one pattern? There is only one way to salvation, but in other ways, such as the way we are introduced to Christ, He deals with each of us as individuals.

In His own healing ministry, Jesus once reached down and made mud and put it on a man's blind eyes. He said, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam."

Another time, He just spoke the word and a man was healed many miles away. It was discovered later that at the very moment Jesus spoke the word, the man had been healed. On other occasions, He would go into a house and actually touch an individual, as in the case of Peter's mother-in-law.

Peter went one step further than praying in the name of Jesus. He become a point of contact. At the gate called Beautiful, he took a man by the right hand and lifted him up. Immediately, the man's feet and ankle bones received strength and he began to leap and walk.

After the man was healed, he did a terrible thing - he went in and completely disrupted an afternoon prayer service! He seemed to show no respect for the sanctity of the temple at all.

He went in there leaping and jumping and shouting and waving his arms, "I'm healed! I'm healed! I'm healed!"

This man, lame from his mother's womb. now just tore apart the afternoon prayer service! But what was the result? We read in the next chapter of the Bible (Acts 4) that five thousand men were added to the church that day - five thousand because of one miracle!

Not only were those five thousand saved that day but you can imagine the multiplication as they went out and got their relatives, they got their neighbours and brought them into this experience of salvation in Jesus Christ.

There's no telling how many people were won to Christ as a result of that one miracle. None of it would have happened if Peter had just said, "Well, it's just not this time. He does not have the faith. He must have sin in his life. There's something blocking his healing."

But Peter had gone the extra step and was the point of contact for a miracle that brought a great breakthrough to that area.

You must become a point of contact. You must let God use you. You cannot be timid. Christ Jesus' abundant life adds boldness to your personality.

Faith is a fact, but faith is an act. Faith without works is dead!

Be ready to act your faith!

Be a point of contact.