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5. AMAZING
STRENGTH

6. 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said
to them, "Rulers and elders of our people, 9
are we being questioned today because
we've done a good deed for a crippled
man? Do you want to know how he was
healed? 10 Let me clearly state to all of you
and to all the people of Israel that he was
healed by the powerful name of Jesus
Christ the Nazarene, the man you crucified
but whom God raised from the dead.
Acts 4:8-10 (NLT)

7. PETER
Peter (then Simon) was
a fisherman along with
his brother Andrew and
the sons of Zebedee,
James and John.

8. Peter first preaching
yielded to 3,000 new
believers.

9. Strength is behavior
born out of belief .

10. What you believe
determines how
you behave.

11. PARRHESIA
(par-rhay-see'-ah)
outspokenness, assurance,
courage, confidence;
to act without fear.

12.  Strong Prayers
 Strong Speaking
 Strong Obedience

13. 13 The members of the council were amazed
when they saw the boldness of Peter and
John, for they could see that they were
ordinary men with no special training in the
Scriptures. 14They also recognized them as
men who had been with Jesus.
Acts 4:13-14 (NLT)

14. FACTS
ABOUT
AMAZING
STRENGTH

15. (1)
God gives ordinary people
extraordinary strength.
FACTS ABOUT
AMAZING STRENGTH

16. 13 The members of the council were amazed
when they saw the boldness of Peter and
John, for they could see that they were
ordinary men with no special training in the
Scriptures.
Acts 4:13a (NLT)

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18. TEAM EROY

19. 27 Instead, God chose things the world
considers foolish in order to shame those
who think they are wise. And he chose
things that are powerless to shame those
who are powerful.
1 Corinthians 1:27 (NLT)

20. Amazing strength
comes when we
anchor ourselves to
Jesus.

21. (2)
Your strength will amaze
the world.
FACTS ABOUT
AMAZING STRENGTH

22. 13 The members of the council were amazed
when they saw the boldness of Peter and
John
Acts 4:13a (NLT)

24. 31 But those who wait on the Lord; Shall
renew their strength; They shall mount up
with wings like eagles, They shall run and
not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV)

25. TEAM POLICARPIO

26. Amazing strength
comes when we
rest in God.

27. HOW AMAZED
ARE PEOPLE BY
YOUR STRENGTH?
(Scale it from 1 to 10)

28. (3)
Spiritual strength comes from
knowing Christ.
FACTS ABOUT
AMAZING STRENGTH

29. They also recognized them as men who had
been with Jesus.
Acts 4:14 (NLT)

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31. (1) TIME (2) FAITH
(3) STRENGTH(4) RESULTS

32. Goal is not strength.
Knowing Christ is goal.
Strength is byproduct.

33. Yes, everything else is worthless when
compared with the infinite value of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his
sake I have discarded everything else,
counting it all as garbage, so that I could
gain Christ
Philippians 3:8 (NLT)

34. 20 We cannot stop telling about everything
we have seen and heard.
Acts 4:20 (NLT)

35.  Dead raised: Peter, girl,
Tabitha, Dorcas, Paul,
Euthychus
 Healed: Peter lame man,
Annaias heals Paul, Phillip
crippled.
 Peter’s shadow falls
and heals

36.  Cast out demons
 Crazy needs met

37. 1 The wicked man flees though no one
pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a
lion.
Proverbs 20:1 (NLT)

38. HELEN
ROSEVEARE
(21 September 1925 –
7 December 2016)

39. Dr. Helen Roseveare, a famous English missionary
to the Congo, has passed away at the age of 91.
Helen Roseveare was born in 1925 at Haileybury
College (Hertfordshire, England), where her father
taught mathematics. Raised in a high Anglican
church, Helen’s Sunday school teacher once told
their class about India, and Helen resolved to
herself that she would one day be a missionary.
Despite the Christian heritage of her family, and
faithful attendance at church, Helen sensed a void
in her life and distance from God.

40. She enrolled in Newnham College at Cambridge
University to study medicine. There she joined the
Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU)
through the invitation of a student named Dorothy.
She became an active participant in the prayer
meetings and Bible studies, reading the New
Testament for the first time. But she later said that
her understanding of Christianity was more head
knowledge than heart engagement.

41. In the winter of 1945, the Lord seemed to meet her
in a personal way during a student retreat. She gave
her testimony on the final evening, and Bible
teacher Graham Scroggie wrote Philippians 3:10 in
her new Bible, and told her:
Tonight you’ve entered into the first part of the verse, “That
I may know Him.” This is only the beginning, and there’s a
long journey ahead. My prayer for you is that you will go on
through the verse to know “the power of His resurrection”
and also, God willing, one day perhaps, “the fellowship of
His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.”

42. She felt an increased sense of calling toward
missions, and publicly declared during a missionary
gathering in North England, “I’ll go anywhere God
wants me to, whatever the cost.”
Afterwards, I went up into the mountains and had it out
with God. “O.K. God, today I mean it. Go ahead and make
me more like Jesus, whatever the cost. But please
(knowing myself fairly well), when I feel I can’t stand
anymore and cry out, ‘Stop!’ will you ignore my ‘stop’ and
remember that today I said ‘Go ahead!’?”

43. After graduating from Cambridge with her doctorate
in medicine, Helen studied for six months at the
Worldwide Evangelization Crusade college at
Crystal Palace. From there she went to Belgium to
study French and Holland to take a course on
tropical medicine as she prepared for her
appointment as a medical missionary in the Congo.
In mid-March of 1953, at the age of 28, she arrived
in the northeastern region of the Congo (later
named Zaire).

44. In the first two years, she founded a training school
for nurses, training women to serve as nurse-
evangelists, who in turn would run clinics and
dispensaries in different regions. In October 1955,
she was asked to transfer seven miles away to run
an abandoned maternity and leprosy center in
Nebobongo. Working with local Africans, Helen
helped to transform the center into a hospital with
100 beds, serving mothers, lepers, and children,
along with a training school for paramedics and 48
rural clinics.

45. Outside of these facilities, there was no other medical
help for 150 miles in any direction. Exhausted, Helen
returned to England in 1958 for a furlough, during
which time she received further medical training.
The Congo became independent from Belgium in
1960, and civil war broke out in 1964. All of the medical
facilities they had established were destroyed. Helen
was among ten Protestant missionaries put under
house arrest by the rebel forces for several weeks,
after which time they were moved and imprisoned.

47. She describes the horror of what happened after she
tried to escape:
They found me, dragged me to my feet, struck me over
head and shoulders, flung me on the ground, kicked me,
dragged me to my feet only to strike me again—the
sickening searing pain of a broken tooth, a mouth full of
sticky blood, my glasses gone. Beyond sense, numb with
horror and unknown fear, driven, dragged, pushed back to
my own house—yelled at, insulted, cursed.

48. Her captors, she wrote, “were brutal and drunken. They
cursed and swore, they struck and kicked, they used the butt-
end of rifles and rubber truncheons. We were roughly taken,
thrown in prisons, humiliated, threatened.”
On October 29, 1964, Helen Roseveare was brutally
raped. She later recounted:
On that dreadful night, beaten and bruised, terrified and
tormented, unutterably alone, I had felt at last God had
failed me. Surely He could have stepped in earlier, surely
things need not have gone that far. I had reached what
seemed to be the ultimate depth of despairing
nothingness.

49. In this darkness, however, she sensed the Lord saying
to her:
You asked Me, when you were first converted, for the
privilege of being a missionary. This is it. Don’t you want
it? . . . These are not your sufferings. They’re Mine. All I ask
of you is the loan of your body.
She eventually received an “overwhelming sense of
privilege, that Almighty God would stoop to ask of me,
a mere nobody in a forest clearing in the jungles of
Africa, something He needed.”

50. She later pointed to God’s goodness despite this great
evil:
Through the brutal heartbreaking experience of rape, God
met with me—with outstretched arms of love. It was an
unbelievable experience: He was so utterly there, so totally
understanding, his comfort was so complete—and
suddenly I knew—I really knew that his love was
unutterably sufficient. He did love me! He did understand!

51. She also wrote:
[God] understood not only my desperate misery but also
my awakened desires and mixed up horror of emotional
trauma. I knew that Philippians 4:19, “My God will supply
every need of yours according to his riches in glory in
Christ Jesus,” was true on all levels, not just on a hyper-
spiritual shelf where I had tried to relegate it. . . . He was
actually offering me the inestimable privilege of sharing in
some little way in the fellowship of His sufferings.

52. This theme of “privilege” became prominent in Helen’s
ministry. In her Urbana ’76 address, she said:
One word became unbelievably clear, and that word
was privilege. He didn’t take away pain or cruelty or
humiliation. No! It was all there, but now it was
altogether different. It was with him, for him, in him. He
was actually offering me the inestimable privileged of
sharing in some little way the edge of the fellowship of
his suffering.
In the weeks of imprisonment that followed and in the

53. This theme of “privilege” became prominent in Helen’s
ministry. In her Urbana ’76 address, she said:
One word became unbelievably clear, and that word was
privilege. He didn’t take away pain or cruelty or humiliation.
No! It was all there, but now it was altogether different. It
was with him, for him, in him. He was actually offering me
the inestimable privileged of sharing in some little way the
edge of the fellowship of his suffering.

54. This theme of “privilege” became prominent in Helen’s
ministry. In her Urbana ’76 address, she said:
One word became unbelievably clear, and that word was
privilege. He didn’t take away pain or cruelty or humiliation.
No! It was all there, but now it was altogether different. It
was with him, for him, in him. He was actually offering me
the inestimable privileged of sharing in some little way the
edge of the fellowship of his suffering.

55. In the weeks of imprisonment that followed and in the
subsequent years of continued service, looking back, one
has tried to “count the cost,” but I find it all swallowed up
in privilege. The cost suddenly seems very small and
transient in the greatness and permanence of the privilege.
After returning to African in 1966, she soon left
Nebobongo to establish a new medical center in
Nyankunde in northeastern Zaire, producing a 250-bed
hospital, maternity ward, training college for doctors, a
center for leprosy, and other endeavors.

56. There, too, she experienced several trials and
relational difficulties. She never claimed to see visions
or hear the voice of the Lord, but she did sense him
rebuking her attitude. On one occasion, her conviction
from the Lord went as follows:
You no longer want Jesus only, but Jesus plus . . . plus
respect, popularity, public opinion, success and pride. You
wanted to go out with all the trumpets blaring, from a
farewell-do that you organized for yourself with
photographs and tape-recordings to show and play at
home, just to reveal what you had achieved.

58. Time with Jesus builds your
faith; which leads to strength
that produces spiritual results.
CONCLUSION

59.  What are your weaknesses that
you could give to God that will
become your strength?
 What are your strengths that
people notice?
 What are things that you want
 others to see you as your
strength?

60. FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Ptr. Alvin Gutierrez
FCC Main San Mateo, Rizal, PH
Evening Worship Service,
January 8, 2017
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