*Above Only Devotional* Monday, December 9 *You are Carrying the Joy and Hope of Many Lives*

*Above Only Devotional*

Monday, December 9

*You are Carrying the Joy and Hope of Many Lives*

_Acts 8:5-8 (LB), Acts 3:8_
_Philip, for instance, went to the City Of , Samaria and told the people there about Christ. Crowds listened intently to what he had to say because of the miracles he did.

Many evil spirits were cast out , screaming as they left their victims, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed, so there was much joy in that city! *And he leaping up stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God_

Just as Peter commanded that lame man by the gate called beautiful to rise up and walk in the name of Jesus, God wants you to go out today and use the authority of Christ to lift people up and set them free from every bondage and limitation in their lives. Jesus said the harvest is plenty but the labourers are few. He said pray for God to send labourers into His field and then go into the field and preach the gospel, Luke 10:2-3. There is so much that God wants to do and there are so many lives that He wants to touch and save through you.

You have something in you that the people of the world do not have. This is why you need to be so full of hope and joy every single day. Other people might have given the lame man money but that did not change his life. But when Peter and John showed up, they give him something they had in them that could do far more than anything else could have done in his life. You need to know what you have which is the glorious life of Christ in you and you need to go about your life with the hope and expectation of seeing lives changed and situations being turned around for good because of this glorious life of Christ that is in you. You need to be willing to open your mouth and boldly declare the truth and gospel of Christ and to lay your hands on people and declare the power of God to manifest in their lives. I see people rejoicing and praising God today because of you. I see people doing what they could not do before because of the glorious life and power of Christ that will manifest through you today.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, may the glorious life and power of Christ in me flow out to touch and bless somebody's life today.