Impact... Expecting Something?

Acts 3:1 "One day Peter and John were going to the temple at the time of prayer..."

Throughout the book of Acts, we see numerous accounts of miraculous things taking place through the first century Church. In Acts chapter 3, we see a man who was crippled from birth be healed. We'll be looking at this portion of scripture this coming Sunday in our iMpAct series... but here's just one thing that stands out in this written account.

Notice the simple way this unfolds: "One day..."  This was a day just like any other day. Peter and John were in their regular daily routine, heading to the temple to pray. There at the entrance to the temple, there was a crippled man, who probably was there like every other day prior, begging for money trying to survive another typical day. He wasn't able to work, and learned to live with his "illness" that he had since birth.

The bible doesn't say what turned this ordinary day into a extraordinary day; but I believe that recent outpouring of the Holy Spirit (a baptism of love/compassion) opened Peter and John's eyes to see their surroundings and this man differently. There were no fireworks or angels that knocked on Peter and John's door that morning say "You are going to heal a man who has been crippled from birth today", just an ordinary day that became extraordinary because they ceased the opportunity to meet a persons need.

Our iMpAct prayer has been: "Lord, interrupt my life and disturb me; push me off of comfortable and complacent - fill me with compassion, for Your Glory."

The greatest impact is typically wrapped in the ordinary. Ordinary people like you and I, moved by extraordinary love, during any ordinary day.

Verse 5 tells us: "So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them." WOW!

What are the people in our world expecting from us?
Are they expecting us to walk by as we live out our ordinary day?
Do we live our days expecting them to leave us alone, not to bother us?
Do we expect someone else to be the answer?
What does God expect us to do when we are faced with such an opportunity?

God - help us not to just pray this prayer with our eyes closed... may we pray with our eyes open wide to the extraordinary potential throughout our ordinary day. INTERRUPT OUR LIVES!