The Temple’s Magnificence – 2

Apostle Grace Lubega

Acts 3:1-8(KJV); Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk… And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

The beauty of the Church is not merely outside beauty, it is what is on the inside of us.

Our theme scripture speaks of a man who was lame from his mother’s womb and was always laid at the gate of the temple called beautiful.

This was beauty on the outside but there was no beauty on the inside because the man had not found an answer to his life’s issues inside the temple.

When Peter and John met him, they introduced him to a different kind of beauty.

Their’s was an inner beauty that came with answers.
Peter told the man, ‘Such as I have, I give thee…’ He reached within himself and what came out was beautiful!

The spirit of God in the inside of us is the perfection of beauty. It is beautiful when we heal men of disease, it is beautiful when we cast out devils, it is beautiful when we deliver them from all forms of affliction.

The bible says, out of you shall flow rivers of living water. That is the beauty on the inside.

Some people are too busy perfecting the outside to define beauty.

Stir up beauty on the inside. That is what attracts. That is what got the lame man from outside the temple to follow Peter and John into the temple.

Stir it up by speaking it forth. Stir it up by continually believing that greatness and beauty are inside you.

Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: John 7:37-39, Psalm 50:2

GOLDEN NUGGET:
Stir up beauty on the inside. That is what attracts. Stir it up by speaking it forth. Stir it up by continually believing that greatness and beauty are inside you.

PRAYER: Father, I thank you for this day. More than ever I acknowledge what you have placed on the inside of me. The Bible says that you have placed eternity in my heart. What is in me is everlasting, unending and incorruptible. What is in me beautifies my world, it heals, it delivers, it uplifts and it refreshes. I am an answer to the world because of the beauty of the spirit that is flowing out of me. In Jesus’ name. Amen.