The Church On Fire: In The Name Of Jesus

Peter and John walked into the temple with nothing in their pockets and everything in their hands. When a lame man asked them for money, Peter's response was honest: "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you."What he had was a name that wasn't his own.Most of us spend our lives building something; our reputation, our security, our legacy. We ask God to bless what we've already decided to do. Peter operated under an entirely different set of assumptions. He acted under someone else's authority, and the results were beyond anything he could have produced on his own.When you walk into your hardest situations, are you drawing on your own competence and history, or are you genuinely acting under the authority of Jesus?