Text:
Acts 4:29-31 (NKJV)
Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,
by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."
And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Observation:
I woke up this morning on this day of our Lord, Thursday, February 1, 2018. The topic that God spoke to my heart was to write to my people today, and not tomorrow.
So, my mind became still, and I listen to the sweet and tender voice of my Father in heaven who said to me, Herb, my beloved son, write to my people today, and not tomorrow. I will tell you what to say as you listen to me. Listening was your goal in 2017, and now I have given you the vision for 2018 of loving one another as you love God and yourself.
I'm now at my desk before my computer, and I am writing as the Holy Spirit guides me, and as I write what God the Father speaks to my heart. I hear Him saying to articulate this to my people.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
I believe this message is for everyone who bears the name of, "CHILD OF GOD." Do you belong to God, and does God belong to you?
If you are a child of God, would you be willing to do what one, who identified himself as being a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ says in God's Holy, and divine Word?
1 Timothy 2:1-4 (NKJV)
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
If you are willing, I ask you to join in a partnership with me in spreading this message to your family and friends the media that is available to you on whatever communication device you have available to you. It's time for God's people to be courageous and bold. Come on somebody, let's shine the light of God upon this dark world.
Let pray, and ask the Holy Spirit who worked in Pentecostal power then, to work in our lives on the Thursday before a Great Friday.
Prayer:
Acts 5:11-15 (NKJV)
So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things.
And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch.
Yet none of the rest dared join them, but the people esteemed them highly.
And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.
Father, we ask you to do it again and begin by doing it in the writer, the readers, and the doers of Your most holy, righteous, and true Word of God, and from the God of the Word. Let all who agree, say, Amen.
1 Samuel 3:10 (NLT)
10 And the LORD came and called as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel replied, "Speak, your servant is listening."
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