SCRIPTURE: Acts 4:23-31
“Enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.” (Acts 4:29)
What would we pray for when we are threatened because of our faith?
(Honestly, most Christian today would pray for safety, not boldness).
I have prayed for more boldness when things were safe, and I was hesitant.
But to pray for more boldness just after you’ve been threatened and tortured?
These guys are on fire, they are absolutely confident in God and in Jesus.
This isn’t the behaviour of people who ‘made up’ a story about Jesus’ resurrection.
They really believe it, and are willing to suffer for it… and die.
Our prayers today are lame in comparison to this prayer.
We’re constantly asking for things, but not usually for greater boldness.
If God IS the sovereign God, and Jesus IS the resurrected Lord, what will I pray for?
More boldness, more demonstrations of God’s power in Jesus Name, more Holy Spirit?
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, our prayer meetings seem so tame, almost lame, in comparison. Light the fire in our hearts to melt the lead in our feet!
Observation/Application
At all times and in all situations, talk to God – bring it to the Lord in prayer. Pray boldly for the Spirit to work in us and through us. Faith like a mustard seed – to move mountains. Oh what a change these men had from before Christ’s death and now after His resurrection. Spirit moved. Spirit movers. Alive and on fire for their risen Saviour proclaiming what He had done.
Help me Lord to speak with words and actions boldly.
Spirit of the living God
Fall fresh on me
Spirit of the living God
Fall fresh on me
Break me, melt me, mold me fill me
Spirit of the living God
Fall fresh on me
Amen! Oh man love this reply! On fire! God bless you!