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At our church we have a daily Bible reading planner and the goal of this planner is to read the whole bible in one year. Here is my checklist *shows list*. It is a blessing to me to have this daily Bible planner checklist. The checklist keeps us on our toes. I have to keep up with my reading everyday because it is very easy to get behind or even so when we do not have anything else to measure to show us how behind, on time, or ahead are we. It’s a good measurement tool.

Anyway, today I was reading Acts 14 and I thought it was very powerful and I would like to share it with you all.

You know, the gun itself can be very explosive. It is very powerful. It has the ability to kill. It has the ability to maim body parts. It can do so many things, but the gun itself as an object is harmless. You have to pull the trigger to make the gun harmful. If you do not pull the trigger, the gun will do nothing.

This concept is the same with God’s principalities. God is so powerful and has great abilities. He has countless of things that are available for us BUT if you do not trigger God, He becomes nothing to you.

Now, what can trigger God’s available power for us to activate?

Our faith.

You might ask me, “Our faith?”. Yes, our faith. We can see that in chapter 14 of Acts. This chapter talks about Paul’s missionary trips with Barnabas to different countries throughout Europe and Greece.

“And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.” -Acts 14:8-10

Starting on verse 9, oh, I mean verse 8, we see that a man was born cripped. He was not born with normal feet and he could not walk. The crippled man was sitting in the audience listening to Paul preach. As he was listening to Paul and watching him preach, their eyes made contact. Paul, a Holy Spirit filled man, was touched and knew that the crippled man had faith. Paul could sense the faith in the crippled man- it just needed to be activated. So to activate the crippled man’s faith, Paul said to him, “Get up and walk now.” The crippled man decided to get up and walk and as a result, the crippled man actually could walk. The crippled man was born a cripple. He was born unable to walk because of the abnormal feet he had. The crippled man did not have an injury that caused him to be crippled. No! He was BORN a crippled person and was able to walk because of his faith. His faith TRIGGERED God’s power to work in him. That chapter touched me! And because of what happened to the crippled man, the crowd rejoiced. They were very glad. Now, the trigger touch is very important. If not for that trigger touch, the power God had for that man would have not happened. Wow. This is a good Word of God.

At the same time, as I think of a gun, the gun, if the safety button is on and we attempt to pull the trigger, it won’t work. The safety button has to be turned off in order for it to work. This has the same concept in our lives. We cannot just do things we want just for ourselves, live however we want, or have a wild, rivilous, and self-boasting life and when things turn for worse, we attempt to try to use faith. It’s not going to work. This is because God has clearly said in Galatians 6:7:

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”

So, in summary, I feel this 14th chapter of Acts was a good chapter as it explains to us what we are capable of doing when we have complete faith in God’s power in us.

Be blessed today.

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