In the Name of Jesus

Pat's View: Inspirational stories

An event happened at the Gate Beautiful that was even more beautiful than its setting.

A 40-year-old crippled man was healed. The religious leaders overlooked the miracle because Peter and John's message of Jesus and His resurrection didn't fit in their neat little religious box. They were distraught!

7They had Peter and John brought in and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

10then let this be known to all of you and to 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.

11This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Peter and John knew the inherent power that is in the name of Jesus! They had seen Jesus' miracles!

They understood that while they had no power to heal, Jesus does. They understood that they had been delegated authority as children of God, to use the name of Jesus. And when they used the name of Jesus a man that had never walked was healed.

The 7 sons of Sceva tried to use the name, but they were not believers, so it back-fired on them.

Jesus still heals. There is power in His name. Jesus still saves and delivers. Everything Jesus was His name still is. David Hughart

As believers, when we grasp the reality of the power in the name of Jesus, we will see the miracles we were meant to see!