Do you remember the man at gate beautiful in Acts 3 who was sitting, begging for alms? What makes this gate so significant to the story is that beyond this gate was also the court of the treasury. There were 7 big bronze trumpet shaped collectors that sat in this court. Here people would come into the temple and place their tithes and offerings unto the Lord. We see Jesus in Mark 12 watching people coming in to this court area giving their money into the treasury and you'll recall the story of the window's mites.

So it is appropriate for this man to hang out here because people were coming in with their money ready to give to the Lord. The great part of the story is that this man who had been this way for 40 years was only looking for temporal money. But God in Eph 3:2 says- "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine" had something greater in mind. This man limited God and it never even entered his mind to ask God for his what he truly needed. What a GREAT, incredible kind and generous God that we serve. He received more than he even asked or imagined.

May we all go leaping and shouting and praising God at the very least in our hearts today as we ponder the generosity of our God.

posted by Crown Pointe Church @ 9:22 AM