// Read: Acts 4:24-31 //
24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. 25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:
“‘Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord
and against his anointed one.[a]’[b]
27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. 29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. 30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
MEDITATION:
Power can come or be manifested in many ways. Initially the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with new tongues. In our passage today they were filled with the Holy Spirit severally (verse 8, 31) and spoke the word of God boldly. Always desire the in filling of the Holy Spirit in order to boldly declare the counsel of God for this generation.
PRAYER: Pray that the presence of the Holy Spirit will be noticed in your life.