{"id":372,"date":"2009-03-03T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=372"},"modified":"2009-02-18T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T10:04:47","slug":"lent-devotions-2009-tuesday-3rd-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2009\/03\/03\/lent-devotions-2009-tuesday-3rd-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2009: Tuesday 3rd March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cAnd there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.\u201d Acts 4:12<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The above text is part of Peter&#8217;s speech before the Sanhedrin after Peter healed a crippled man at the Beautiful Gate in the name of Jesus. This is the first miracle that Peter performs in Jesus&#8217; name after being anointed with the Holy Spirit. Indeed it is the first miracle performed outright and in that, Jesus&#8217; promise is fulfilled \u2013 that Peter would be the rock and foundation of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Peter became a shining example for us in what to do as a Christian and indeed preached it with one phrase, namely the phrase written above. It is a simple formula and not always easy to follow. But if we follow Peter&#8217;s example of doing everything in the name of Jesus in our daily lives &#8211; whether we be loving, caring or serving \u2013 then I believe we will be following powerful, blessed lives that point to Jesus&#8217; wonder-working, saving power in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Peter had first-hand knowledge and experience of the power of the name of Jesus. He saw Jesus perform many miracles and speak with authority about the Kingdom of God. He knew that he couldn&#8217;t do anything unless Jesus commanded it \u2013 one great miracle being when Jesus asked Peter to come out on the water with Him, albeit that the miracle only lasted a few seconds (see Matthew 14: 22- 33).<br \/>\nPeter definitely knew that there&#8217;s power in the name of Jesus and lived his everyday life ever-ready with that potent knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank You God that You gave us Peter to be a shining example of proclaiming salvation in the name of Jesus. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.\u201d Acts 4:12 The above text is part of Peter&#8217;s speech before the Sanhedrin after Peter healed a crippled man at the Beautiful Gate in the name of Jesus. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}