Holy Boldness
"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." Acts 4:31
Oh to have the kind of holy boldness that saturated the apostles! The entirety of Chapter 4 of Acts leads us through a series of events leading up to this verse. The action begins in Acts 3, when a lame man is healed at the Gate Beautiful. Peter calls the onlookers to task and he and John end up in jail. They were eventually released and returned back to the "upper room company." Together, they prayed.
And so it was that following their time of prayer, the place shook and they all were filled with the Holy Spirit. Everyone there was filled with the Spirit. Wow! No one was skipped over or passed by. Maybe the reason was due to the unity and agreement among the believers. As a result of this filling of the Holy Spirit, they spoke the word of God boldly.
Lord, may we be the people who come together in unity and pray in unity. May we find the room shaking with Your presence. May experience a fresh filling of Your Spirit, enabling us to proclaim Your word of truth - the gospel of Jesus Christ, with divine courage. We ask for Your holy boldness this day.
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