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There are those who feel they have very little to offer in this life - as though they have come to believe that if the contribution cannot be great, then the little doesn't matter. The very thing we have at our disposal may not be much at the moment, but in the hand of God, it is great! Over time, the small things add up - in the hands of God, the tiniest of things yielded to him can become the most magnificent things. One day at three o'clock in the afternoon, Peter and John were on their way into the Temple for prayer meeting. At the same time there was a man crippled from birth being carried up. Every day he was set down at the Temple gate, the one named Beautiful, to beg from those going into the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to enter the Temple, he asked for a handout. Peter, with John at his side, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look here." He looked up, expecting to get something from them. Peter said, "I don't have a nickel to my ...