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October 8th 2025

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WEDNESDAY

Peter said, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” And he did it—jumped right out of bed. Everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him walking around and woke up to the fact that God was alive and active among them…Peter put the widows all out of the room. He knelt and prayed. Then he spoke directly to the body: “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes. When she saw Peter, she sat up. He took her hand and helped her up. Then he called in the believers and widows and presented her to them alive.—Acts 9:34, 35, 40, 41 (MSG)

What Jesus did through Peter and in the lives of these two people led to something greater in the larger arena of life.
The first miracle took place in Lydda, 25 miles west of Jerusalem. Peter encountered a paralyzed man, named Aeneas. Aeneas had been confined to his bed for eight years, but Peter invoked the name of Jesus to bring about Aeneas’ healing. Peter told Aeneas, “Jesus Christ is healing you.”
Peter didn’t permit Aeneas to dwell too long on his problem; Peter shifted Aeneas’ focus on Jesus. Similarly, if we are to be the conduit of healing that Christ intended, we must shift the focus away from just sympathy for the problem, and we must announce to a bedridden people, “If you fix your eyes on Jesus, He will heal you.” We are the healing station, but we’re not the Healer; we are the messengers, but we’re not the Message.
As a result of what Peter did in Lydda, word spread to Joppa, where there was a woman named Dorcas, who had died. But her loved ones reasoned, “If Peter could heal a bedridden man in the name of this Jesus, then perhaps he can invoke His name now and do something about Dorcas’ situation.” So, they sent for Peter, and Peter came and prayed for Dorcas and invoked the name of Jesus. And Dorcas’ life was restored.
When God uses us in one situation, it opens doors for us to be used in other situations. We can never stop because needs never stop—substance abuse, family strife, financial hardship, hurts from childhood, rejection, aging, etc. One door of opportunity leads to another. As Jesus blesses us to be participants in one act of healing, He also equips us to deal with greater challenges that lay before us.

Prayer: Lord, as we go today, help us to walk through our doors of opportunity, so that we may be a station of hope and help for people who are in need. Let us remind the people we encounter that ‘Jesus heals them!’ In His name, we pray. AMEN!

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