BEAUTIFUL GATE
ACTS CHAPTER 3
I WAS READING THE BOOK OF ACTS THE OTHER DAY. AND N CHAPTER 3 THERE’S A STORY OF A MAN WHO IS LAME. IN OTHER WORDS HE CANNOT WALK AND WAS BORN THIS WAY ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE.
SCRIPTURE ALSO SPEAKS OF HOW PEOPLE WOULD TAKE HIM TO THE GATE OF THE TEMPLE
THIS GATE WAS CALLED BEAUTIFUL
AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE THIS LAME MAN WOULD BEG FOR ALMS.
FROM MY UNDERSTANDING HE DID THIS EVERYDAY, REMINDS ME OF THAT PERSON YOU SEE ON THE SAME CORNER EVERYDAY FOR SEVERAL YEARS ASKING FOR MONEY.
ONE DAY PETER AND JOHN WAS ENTERING THE TEMPLE AND THIS LAME BEGGED FOR ALMS. THEY DIDNT HAVE ALMS TO GIVE HIM HOWEVER WHAT THEY DID GIVE HIM WAS WORTH FAR MONEY THAN SILVER OR GOLD.
JESUS USED PETER TO GIVE THIS MAN HEALING, HE WAS ABLE TO WALK FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
WELL SOMETHING ABOUT THE NAME OF THE GATE STUCK OUT TO ME. IT WAS CALLED
BEAUTIFUL
I’D LIKE TO BREAKDOWN THE MEANING AS WE KNOW IT AND ALSO FROM THE SCRIPTURE
BEAUTIFUL-HAVING QUALITIES OF BEAUTY, GENERALLY PLEASING, EXCELLENT
IN THIS STORY HERE ARE SOME DEFINITIONS OF THE WORD BEAUTIFUL
*BELONGING TO THE RIGHT HOUR OR SEASON
*TIMELY
*FLOURISHING
THEN I WANTED TO SEE THE MEANING OF TEMPLE IN THIS SCRIPTURE
ONE MEANING OF TEMPLE THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WAS
*A SACRED PLACE
SO THE BEAUTIFUL GATE WAS THE RIGHT HOUR/SEASON TO FLOURISH IN THE SACRED PLACE
THIS MAN WAS IN THE EXACT PLACE HE NEEDED TO BE FOR HIS HEALING ALTHOUGH HE WASN’T ASKING FOR IT
COULD IT BE YOU’VE BEEN SHOWING UP TO THAT SACRED PLACE ASKING FOR WHAT YOU WANTED INSTEAD OF WHAT YOU NEEDED.
KEEP SHOWING UP TO THE BEAUTIFUL GATE AT THE SACRED PLACE(WITH JESUS) PERHAPS YOUR NEXT PRAYER SHOULD BE FOR GOD TO SEND WHOMEVER HE HAS ORDAINED TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED (HEALING)
I CAN HEAR SOME NOW SAYING “GOD WILL HEAL ME” YES HE DOES AND AS YOU SEE HE USED THE DISCIPLES TO BRING FORTH THE LAME’S HEALING IN THE NAME OF JESUS
JUST KEEP SHOWING UP !!!!!!!!