{"id":903,"date":"2017-03-08T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbaralardinais:8888\/wake-dec07-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T13:59:42","slug":"wake-dec07-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand In Hand &#8211; Matthew 4:23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we want a good model for expanding the kingdom of God in our churches and cities we could use this simple one: <strong>\u201cAnd Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, <em>and<\/em> healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.\u201d<\/strong> (Matthew 4:23)<\/p>\n<p>Notice the word AND which links the two ways together. The kingdom is expanded through word AND deed. The word is teaching and proclaiming and the deed is healing. If we want to follow Jesus, let\u2019s follow his example because he was pretty successful with that methodology.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was a powerful teacher or rabbi <strong>\u201cfor He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.\u201d<\/strong> (Mark 1:22) Yet, the crowds did not believe simply for his teaching. His disciples grew as he backed up his word with healings and miracles. What if we did the same?<\/p>\n<p>Some might say: \u201cYeah but we\u2019re not Jesus!\u201d No but he passed to us the authority to be his mouth and hands and feet to reach our own generation just as he and his disciples reached theirs. He gave us this promise: <strong>\u201che who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father.\u201d<\/strong> (John 14:12)<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s build the kingdom of God on earth just as Jesus did with both word and deed \u2013 you might say hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want a good model for expanding the kingdom of God in our churches and cities we could use this simple one: \u201cAnd Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hand In Hand - Matthew 4:23 - Hannah&#039;s Cupboard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hand In Hand - Matthew 4:23 - Hannah&#039;s Cupboard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If we want a good model for expanding the kingdom of God in our churches and cities we could use this simple one: \u201cAnd Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hannah&#039;s Cupboard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-08T17:13:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-06-11T13:59:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wakeup-call-content-page-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"188\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"202\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Barbara Lardinais\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Barbara Lardinais\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/\",\"name\":\"Hand In Hand - Matthew 4:23 - Hannah&#039;s Cupboard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wakeup-call-content-page-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-08T17:13:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-11T13:59:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c08ef84c64f8ab46050bf306eca0a34d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wakeup-call-content-page-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wakeup-call-content-page-1.jpg\",\"width\":188,\"height\":202,\"caption\":\"wake up call header\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/wake-dec07-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hand In Hand &#8211; 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