“Lord, enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and PERFORM SIGNS AND WONDERS through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 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 4:29-31)
WE ARE HOLY SPIRIT FILLED CHILDREN OF GOD AND SHOULD BE speaking God’s word WITH BOLDNESS and allowing His hand to be STRETCHED OUT THROUGH OUR LIVES PREFORMING SIGNS AND WONDERS FOR HIS GLORY!!! SOON, all this WILL BE going on AND MANY WILL BE added to God daily!
“…my speech and my message were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF POWER, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in THE POWER OF GOD.” (1 Corin. 2:4-5) Most often our finely prepared and anointed presentations are followed with discussion and debate and NOT DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE SPIRIT AND POWER! When God performs a miracle, the discussion is not about what we said but about WHAT GOD DID!
“you will be baptized with THE HOLY SPIRIT…YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER (dunamis: strength, power, or ability. the root word dynamite) when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses…to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:5, 8) When Annas the high priest began to question Peter and the others about preaching in the name of Jesus, they were speechless when they saw the 40-year-old previously lame from birth, man that everyone knew… “…seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, THEY HAD NOTHING TO SAY IN REPLY.” (Acts 4:14)
I am certainly not saying that miracles are not happening, but they should be a regular part of the Holy Spirit filled person’s life! So, what do we need to do? What did the 120 in from the Upper Room do? “These all with one mind were CONTINUALLY DEVOTING THEMSELVES TO PRAYER…” (Acts 1:14)
PRAYING AND BELIEVING GOD FOR THE PROMISE GIVEN BY JESUS!
Your Personal Pastor -Bill Stockham