The Right People | Herbert Cooper
Four Benefits of Having the Right People in Your Life
1. The right people help scales fall off your eyes
Acts 9:8–9 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they
led him by the hand into Damascus. 9 For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.
(NIV)
Acts 9:17-18 So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. (NLT)
2. The right people will help you grow closer to God
Acts 9:17-18 So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. (NLT)
Proverbs 13:20 Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. (NIV)
3. The right people give you direction
Acts 9:6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (NIV)
4. The right people see potential in you that you can’t see
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said, “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel. (NLT)
Acts 22:12 “A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. (NIV)
Acts 9:19–22 and after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. 20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God 21 All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?” 22 Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah. (NIV)
