Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

Good morning. At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s portico. It does not say whether the signs and wonders were helping God’s people, or if they were helping nonbelievers, and that brought them to Jesus. My guess is that it was both. You don’t need a great health insurance, if you have God healing you. Notice that they were all with one accord. Sadly that is not the case in today’s churches. But probably as a result of the death of Ananias and his wife, none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem. And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number, to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them. Forget about sending in money for a prayer cloth; it only took Peter’s shadow to heal them (actually it does not say that they were healed, but I assume that they were; otherwise, why would they keep doing it?). It would’ve been all too easy for Peter to get conceited and think that he was doing it, and that he was the star of the whole thing. If it happened today, the one whose shadow healed people would feel that way. Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed. That would seem to support the idea that Peter’s shadow falling upon them brought healing. Father help this to be a great day for the reader and his/her family. Bring healing to them all.