Stretch Out Your Hands To Heal Part - Audio

Bakersfield First Assembly

Acts 4:27-31 (NIV) – [27] “Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. [28] They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. [29] Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. [30] STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” [31] After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Stretch Out Your Hand to Heal 1. God stretches out His hand to DELIVER. 2. God stretches out His hand in LOVE. 3. God stretches out His hand to GUIDE. 4. God stretches out His hand to SAVE. Isaiah 45:11-12 (NIV) – [11] “This is what the Lord says—the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? [12] It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own HANDS STRETCHED OUT the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts. 5. God stretches out His hand to CREATE. Isaiah 64:8 (NIV) – [8] Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Romans 9:20-21 (NIV) – [20] But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” [21] Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? Genesis 1:27 (NIV) – [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Ezekiel 25:15-17 (NIV) – [15] “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, [16] therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to STRETCH OUT MY HAND against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast. [17] I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I take vengeance on them.’” 6. God stretches out His hand to AVENGE. Romans 12:19 (NIV) – [19] Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. Deuteronomy 11:1-2 (NIV) – [1] Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. [2] Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, HIS MIGHTY HAND, HIS OUTSTRETCHED ARM. 7. God stretches out His hand to DISCIPLINE. Judges 3:1-4 (NIV) – [1] These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan [2] (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): [3] the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. [4] They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD's commands, which he had given their forefathers through Moses.