Gabriel’s dream led him to a dusty path in Lystra and Derbe in first-century Palestine. A man was preaching and another man was sitting in the dust listening: He had never walked in his life, but his attention was rapt and he had been carried here. The man preaching was Paul. Time passed. There were many there, but eventually staring hard at the man. His feet crippled from birth, unmoving, pressed on all sides, caught the eye of Paul. With all his heart the man knew he had faith and Paul knew it too and cried out in a loud voice:

“Get to your feet – stand up.”

Instantly the crippled man was on his feet and, to his amazement, walking.

The people were amazed, thinking Paul was a god – Hermes.

Gabriel was less sure. Who was he? But he looked into his own crippled soul and for that moment only he too was cured. For in that one moment, he too had faith.