Acts #27 - Get Up

Acts 9:32-43 (NIV)
Read by: Hugo Castro

What are the places where you need healing from the Lord, where do you need things to go from death to life?

Today on Daily Read, we follow Peter as he imitated Jesus and sees the Holy spirit move to heal people and bring a dead girl back to life. As you listen you might realize that it sounds familiar. And that’s because what Peter does in this passage, is almost exactly what he saw Jesus doing.

In Mark chapter 2 Peter watches Jesus as he tells a paralyzed man to “get up take his mat and go home.” In Mark Chapter 5 Jesus brings Peter into a room where he heals Jiarus’ daughter, and says “Talitha koum” which means little girl get up. The Holy Spirit is moving in mighty ways and in some ways might be preparing Peter to trust the Holy Spirit as the Spirit invites him to go where he might otherwise not want to go.

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1. What word or phrase stood out to you in this passage?

2. A Paralyzed man and a dead girl named Tabitha are made whole again in this passage. As they hear the words Get Up… the power of the resurrection washes over them and things are set right. In what areas of your life do you need to hear the words get up?

3. Peter, trusting the Holy Spirit, speaks to the paralyzed man and to Tabitha. He tells them to Get Up… trusting the power of God to make broken things whole and to bring dead things back to life. Where in your life is the Spirit calling you to speak the words Get Up! Your family, your community, your work, your church?

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