The important stuff….

The important stuff….

The winter before my husband passed away, I was scheduled to share at the local MOPS group.  Young mothers meeting together to encourage one another on their journey through preschoolers…

(I see them now on Facebook, with graduates instead of toddlers, diplomas rather than diaper bags and fish crackers…encouraging others).

The topic was to be “don’t sweat the stuff” from the book by the same name…lighten up, no one is perfect…remember what is important….well, I didn’t get to share that and a great friend stepped graciously in and gave her rendition of the talk…( a God moment, as it connected her to the group). An illustration that demonstrates this idea ….

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In these few verses in Acts, Peter spoke the important things…the real basics…the important stuff…the majors…filled with the Holy Spirit…through the small stuff of prison, ridicule, rules laid down by rulers…

Thank YOU….helps us to remember the important stuff, words, deeds over the incidentals….

 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 

And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” 

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. 

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. 

And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. 

But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. 

But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, saying, “What shall we do with these men? 

For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” 

So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” 

And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened. 

For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old. 

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

Acts.4.5-22,31

Our God Saves…

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