
Home – Part 2 | Simon Peter’s Home - Powerful Decisions
April 6, 2025
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. —John 14:23
- Jesus is preparing a place for us. Are we preparing a place for Him?
1. Your
to follow Jesus also invites the Holy Spirit to work in your family.
When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” —Luke 5:8
Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. —Mark 1:29
So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” —Acts 16:31
2. Jesus
about the seemingly small issues, not just the big ones.
But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at once. 31 So He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her. And she served them. —Mark 1:30-31
- Let’s decide right now to believe God for the “
Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. 15 So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them. —Matthew 8:14-15
3. My encounter with Jesus
me to serve others.
And she served them. —Mark 1:31b
- I’m saved to serve.
- I’m blessed to be a blessing!
- I’m healed to
4. The simplest testimony is a
for the Lord do so much more!
At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to Him all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed. 33 And the whole city was gathered together at the door. 34 Then He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him. —Mark 1:32-34
- All of this goes back to Peter’s yes, and his mother-in-laws yes.
5. A home that welcomes Jesus becomes an ongoing
of God’s Presence and the supernatural ministry of Jesus.
- Let your one-time yes must become an
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at
. —Mark 2:1 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. 19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus. —Luke 5:17-19
Hosting a move of God will involve inconvenience, sacrifice, and at times, a
What we
Son, your sins are forgiven you. —Mark 2:5
And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” —Mark 2:6-12
- Why did Jesus tell this man to go home? Because now the Lord was going to work in his