Blessings and grace to you. This was taught at the Chapel Wednesday evening (1.11.2023).
Message title: God Chose…
Some things to note in this segment:
The people and places they were at. To put it in Peter and the men of Joppa to send for Peter in Lydda and Peter to go to Joppa.
Peter hearing and speaking from God. Mustard seed kind of faith. Ezekiel speaking to the dry bones. Jesus cursing the fig tree.
What is faith?
Faith sees, agrees, and acts, TODAY, on what God sees. That's the beauty of grace rooted faith. Nope, it doesn't need or demand to see everything that God sees, nor does it need to, for it sees enough, to take possession of what God promises right NOW, to propel the servant of God to live FOR His glory. The just, no doubt, live BY faith... or we can say, they live BY the word of God, which means, they live BY hearing from God and for Him. Glory...
There is no such thing as blind faith. It take light to see and a word to hear.
He believed God and spoke what he heard.
God's eternal message overruled the natural world.
He's speaking life. And the ultimate aim of it all — God chose to resurrect the physically dead to resurrect the spiritual dead.
For which is the very reason Peter came to Joppa and why God prepared him for a meeting with a Gentile. Not just any Gentile, but the man God chose to make Himself known to, through the message Peter would bring to him.
Tanners - Joppa
God Chose
He chose to prepare Cornelius — The Receiver He chose to prepare Peter — The Revealer
Devout A Responible leader
Cornelius still needed a messenger that he could hear the
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