Mark 14:7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.

How much do you really do for God? I’m not talking about all the things that you do because it makes you feel good or because that is what is expected of you, but the things that God calls you to do and you go out and do them no matter what!

It is easy to do charitable things and not care for yourself, but doing things that God wants you do to has got to start with the assumption that you are listening to God in the first place.

How many times have you not done something your parents have asked of you? You know you are ignoring them. So do they. So does God know…

Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

When we look at a statement like this we may think of various things. We could think of the glory that Peter must have got for doing this, or the love he must have had for them, or the way people must have thought well of him.

But when we read through the verse and see what Peter was doing we begin to realise just how much faith he had in Christ!

Peter was not looking for gratification or glory. Peter was showing others what Christ could do for them if they trusted Him the same as they were trusting Peter. Peter’s trust was firmly in Christ’s hands.

Acts 4:30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

I don’t know if you have had to go to the doctors recently but much of the time they are only able to guess at what could be wrong and possibly give you something to lessen the discomfort but not to totally heal you.

But these men were being given the power to go forward and to heal people just because they were doing it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!

Our God is a God of miracles and a God of the living, not a god who needs your money or you send the dead to…