PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
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Thursday

Scripture lesson Acts 8:26-40 The Ethiopian Eunuch

Time to reflect: The point of his being a eunuch is simply that that was a necessary precondition to his being important official to a Queen. This was a very important person. Phillip took advantage of his interest in Isaiah to preach the Gospel.

Moving through the day: Be alert all day for situations you find yourself in that might be an opportunity to serve God, perhaps in a surprising or unexpected way.

Scripture:

Acts 3

Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar

The next day the rulers, elders and teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and the other men of the high priest's family. They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: "By what power or what name did you do this?"

 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then 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. He is 'the stone you builders rejected,
      which has become the capstone.Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."