Devo Acts 4:8-20

Chapter 4
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the
people! 9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a
cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10then know this, you and all the people
of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but
whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11He is
“ ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.’ 12Salvation
is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by
which we must be saved.”
13When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were
unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these
men had been with Jesus. 14But since they could see the man who had been
healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say. 15So they
ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.
16”What are we going to do with these men?” they asked. “Everybody living in
Jerusalem knows they have done an outstanding miracle, and we cannot deny it.
17But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must
warn these men to speak no longer to anyone in this name.”
18Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach
at all in the name of Jesus. 19But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves
whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. 20For we cannot
help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Meditation:
1. Do I have a message that I “cannot help but speaking” (v20)? Is my message
the same as Peter’s –that there is “no other name by which we must be saved”?
(v12)
2. Pray that God will grant me the same zeal and passion to share with others
what God has done in my life.

Personal Reflection

Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. 

For we cannot help but speaking about what we have seen and heard.

God commissioned me to share to the world the good news of Jesus Christ.  What would I be doing when I am not witnessing what God has done in my life?  God gave me life.  God gave me purpose.  He freed me from my sins.  I am no longer directionless and living for destructive purposes.  I am not in further bondage to indulge in sinful nature, rather I am touched to serve one another in love.

I am grateful for the healing and purpose gives to my life.  Witnessing to the world what God has done to me is my desire.  Jesus, you are everything to me!!!