Good Morning Sunshine! Take A Seat On The Porch! 

Acts 5:12-16 NKJV ~ “And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch. [13] Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly. [14] And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, [15] so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. [16] Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.” 

In this season I’m sure that you are ready to move! But you need to have an encounter with Jesus first! So that when you move time comes you are ready, and you won’t have to make this same lap again next year. you must be ready to for this next move! You must be ready to go to your next! Go to the next place God has for you! For there is something better and greater in this next new place! So don’t grow weary, Galatians 6:9. Don’t feel heavy or discouraged because you are tired. The best is yet to come! Take a seat on the porch and have a little talk with Jesus, tell Him all about it! You are going to move to a new spot, you just need the correct instructions and where better to get it from than from the Lord! The Porch is a perfect place to gather and meet Jesus! Solomon’s porch was the place where Christians met in the temple area after the outpouring of the spirit of God. During this time, there were no church buildings so believers gathered outside. The porch was a meeting place. When was the last time you gathered outside on a porch? 

The temple in Jesus Christ day was made up of three courts.  There was the court of the gentiles, the court of the women and the court of Israel.  The court of Israel was located close to the altar so that non priest to go in, it was reserved for the Israelite men.  The court of the women was in the temple, it was the furthest away from the court of Israel. But the court of the gentiles was located outside the temple, and it was a space in which anyone could come. The court of the gentiles were covered porches. These porches served as protection from the heat and the rain and would often be a place where all people would go to hear the word! Now the best thing about this court was that it was on the eastern side and was named Solomon’s Porch.  

It was believed that this part of the wall had remained from the time of Solomon.  It was the place where Jesus taught. This porch was named after David’s son, and it was aligned strategically in placed so that everyone could access him.  Because it was located on the eastern side of the temple.  It meant, the “Sun of Righteousness” dawns from the east! The Apostles prayed, taught and preached the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the place where He had taught them and now, they were teaching others in that same spot where they got delivered! We serve a Mighty God! Don’t be surprised or alarmed if God sends you back to the place where you got delivered to help bring somebody else out. Galatians 5:1! 

Where were you when you first encountered Solomon’s Porch? Where did you encounter the Saviour in your life? So many times it’s in the hard places and circumstances of life that you encounter God’s grace and power that propel you to testify of His Goodness!  Did you encounter God as a child or an adult?  Did you  meet you when you lost in life’s highs or lows? I want you to know that it doesn’t matter when, what matters is that you did! Now you are positioned and commissioned to share God with others.  You see nobody knows what you actually went through but you, and nobody else can tell your testimony like you. You know what they are going through what their challenges to the gospel will be and you can tell them how God delivered and healed you, even if you are still walking through the healing process, share where God has brought you thus far!

What was meant to destroy you, birth an entirely new you! Now you are able to share God with those who are still stuck trying to medicate their pain and to show them His Grace as they go through it! All this happened for you on the porch! Your deliverance came and you walked into your healing there! It was on the porch that I met my Savior and every day since then has been great! 

Let’s Pray:

Thank You Father for my porch encounter with You! Father, thank You for the experiences in my life that have made You real to me.  Thank You for drawing me to You by any means necessary. Father, Thank You for Your Redeeming Grace and Steadfast Love that You show and share with me daily. Father, Thank You for the opportunity to speak to others in the places that You spoke to me.  Father, may You continue to show me who to share Your Word with that the captives may be set free. Father, it was at my Solomon’s porch encounter that my eyes were open, and my ears were unstopped, and I was made to walk.  Father, it was that place where Jesus became both Christ and Lord to me. And now I must proclaim to Gospel to all that I meet in the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen! 

Blessings…

Minister Jean