Acts 4:5
“The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.”
My favourite day of Christmas is always the day before the Day. Christmas Eve contains preparation and anticipation, excitement and relaxation. Some may balk at the last word, but it should! The carols and readings and above all the focus on why we are doing this, that is my favourite time, getting ready for the next day.
In our verse today, the day after a remarkable response to Peter’s message the religious leaders met together: It is true that tomorrow your enemy can gather. That can be your next day experience. But think again what your next day can also hold!
In your next day:
1. God will do what He said He will do.
Exodus 9: 5-6 The Lord set a time and said, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.” And the next day the Lord did it.
2. God always has provision for your tomorrow.
Numbers 11:32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.
3. The presence of God in your life tomorrow determines the victory you shall have.
1 Samuel 5:3 When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place.
4. We are people of the next day. It is only tomorrow and then Jesus will come again!
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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