by
Elizabeth Etta
Acts 1:
Many times we often find ourselves questioning God, wanting
signs in our lives. This chapter puts things into perspective that it is not for
you to know the signs that the Father has fixed by His own authority. This
message tells us to put our trust in God whether or not we understand what it
is that he is doing. After Jesus was taken up to heaven, the apostles and the
women devoted themselves to prayer. How often do we devote ourselves to prayer?
Is prayer part of your daily life?
Acts 2:
In this chapter the apostles received the gift of the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in tongues as the spirit gave them utterance so that each
person hearing them could understand them for they were speaking in their
language.
Acts 2:17:
In the last days God declares, I will pour out my spirit on all
flesh, your sons and daughters will prophesy and your young men will see
visions, your old men will dream dreams.....
We are in the last days.
Question for me: How often can I devote myself to learning God's
word, to teaching others, to sharing & communion?
Acts 2:21:
Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved: This
verse has really encouraged me because so many incidents have happened in my
life that I have lost count, instances where without a doubt the name of Jesus
has indeed saved.
Acts 3:
Peter and John are walking into the temple and they healed a
crippled man at the gates. Peter says "Silver and Gold I have none but
what I have I give you, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk".
In this chapter again brings to attention the power of the name Jesus. We
experience the Joy that comes from knowing the Lord and the miracles that can
happen through our faith in the name of Jesus. There is also a huge importance
of prayer. Prayer for our family, prayer for strangers, for our friends. The
power of prayer brings joy, hope and most of all it brings salvation not only
for our souls but the souls of others.
Acts 4:
Chapter 4 is enlightening. The spirit of God gives a boldness
for the disciples to continue to preach about Jesus. This boldness is still
evident today as many Christians lose their lives or are imprisoned for their
faith in countries around the world. Therefore we as believers must
continuously pray for boldness to be able to stand up for our belief in Jesus
in the most difficult of circumstances.
Lord may your Holy Spirit encourage us and give us the spirit of
boldness to be able to stand for truth and justice and to never deny You, to
never deny our faith when questioned.
Another standout is the believers who came together to pray.
This is one of the many reasons I find StAY such a blessing and an encouragement.
The fact that we put up our requests and asks our brothers and sisters to pray
for us, this is exemplary of the Acts chapter when the believers prayed after
hearing Peter and John when they were released from prison. So let us continue
then to pray for one another and lift up each others requests to the lord and
watch the Holy Spirit work in us.
Acts 4:12:
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name
under heaven by which we must be saved.
So far in the first four chapters I witness two things. The
power of prayer. Prayer is the fuel needed to keep the fire burning in our spirits
and the courage to go forth and carry out God's will for us.
Also there is power when we call on the name of the Lord Jesus.
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