Guess who: the disciples or Jesus?
______ said “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
Crowds gathered all from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them were healed.
When the sun was setting, the people brought to ____ all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them.
Taking him by the right hand, _____ helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. He jumped to his feet and began to walk.
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least ___ shadow might fall on some of them as they passed by.
There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years. …And _____ said to him, ”Get up and take care of your mat.” Immediately Anneas got up.
When he had said this, ___ called out in a loud voice, “come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Turning towards the dead woman, he said, “...get up.” She opened her eyes, and seeing _____ she sat up. He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet.
Answers: 1. Jesus (John 5:8-9) 2. Disciples (Acts 5:16) 3. Jesus (Luke 4:40) 4. Disciple (Acts: 3: 7-9) 5. disciple (Acts 5:15) 6. Disciple (Acts 9:33) 7. Jesus (John 11:43) 8. Disciple (Acts 9:40)
How many did you get right? We too have the same power of the Holy Spirit inside of us. Jesus said to his disciples, “Very truly I tell you , whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these” (John 14:12).
How often do we underestimate the power of living a life with the Holy Spirit? Can you imagine what our lives and the lives of those around us look like if we leaned into that power even just a little bit more?
-Annika