BARABBAS

Aha!  It is not raining here,  wow!  God's awesome majesty.  We ran into the temple,  and met a tumult! The whole place was charged,  there was restiveness everywhere, but the paradox was everyone seemed to be happy,  I had just entered the Solomon's porch through the beautiful gate. I asked a young man standing there, he looked like he had seen a ghost.  I said "Shalom,  please what is happening?" he said "didn't you see them?"  "see what" I said. A crippled man has just been healed.  Wow! ...Just then Stephen rushed past,  Hey!  "Barrabas hurry help gather the people, Peter wants to speak to them." "the Lord Jesus has just given a sign,  and it is our opportunity to Preach. Hurry!" as he zoomed off.  "OK Josephus you heard that,  let's move". Then looking at my confused travelling companions I said "you will love this,  wait for it!" as I took off.

Two hours later the place was so quiet that you would hear a denarii hit the ground.  The Holy Spirit has descended upon everyone in the temple heavily,  over 4000 people were going towards Peter as if drawn by an unseen force. I couldn't believe my eyes!  Shera is in tears,  calling on the name of Jesus,  I loved the sight of it,  Shera is saved.

"This is madness!" Archipus retorted.  "What has come over both of you".  Simeon cut in "Let's leave this two love birds,  before we get infected with this God forsaken way"


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"I can't believe I've been in the dark all these while,  Barrabas" Shera said.  "When Peter and the rest come back, we will go to them to share some of their experiences with Jesus with us, I even over heard Matthew talking about writing down the life of Jesus for people like me,  I love to hear about him so much!" I said.
Remember when you guys saw me at the sheep gate?  Reminiscing about my first contact with Jesus,  not knowing he would eventually save my life,  oh!  Jesus my Lord!... Shera cut in "tell me about it! " with a glow in her eyes. I recounted the incident to her,  and began to tell her what the Holy Spirit told me about Jesus' statement "Give to Caeser what belongs to Caeser and to God what belongs to God" ... She hungrily said share with me!  I told her,  the Holy Spirit said to me,  understanding the statement Jesus made,  is tied to knowing it was a continuation of the first statement Jesus made.  He said "whose Image and superscription is on this coin? "... Jesus meant that since The denarii carried Caesers' Image,  give it to him,  whatever has the image of the devil,  dump it for him,  but since you carry the image and likeness of God,  you need to submit yourself in absolute surrender to God!  "Oh my! " Shera said,  whatever belongs to the devil in my life,  I am dumping them all back to him!  I smiled,  I looked at her,  held her hand and said " James told me this while I was talking with him,  and I have been meditating on that ever since he said " submit yourself to God and resist the devil,  he would flee from you... Shera,  you are more than a conqueror. "

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TO BE CONTINUED
P JAY SIGNING OUT.