This morning as I am preparing for an afternoon meeting, I have been reading in the book of Acts. I started with chapter one and read through chapter 4. The power within just those first few books is absolutely phenomenal. You cannot help but be moved by it.
If you are unfamiliar with this text, my challenge to you today is to find a quiet place and sit down and read it and discover what I’m talking about. For those of you who are familiar with the text, have you read it recently? Wow! (I say this because it is hard to find words to describe what I’m feeling right now!) Today is the day to reacquaint yourself with this text.
If I’ve completely lost you, let me fill you in on what’s going on here in these first chapters of Acts. Christ has been crucified, conquered death (through His resurrection), has been on earth for forty days, has ascended back into heaven, and has given the disciples instructions to wait in Jerusalem, “for what the Father had promised, ‘Which,’ He said, ‘you heard of from Me’” (Acts 1:4b, NASB).
Jesus is speaking of the Holy Spirit and verse 8 of the same chapter continues, “but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8, NASB)
Read through those first four chapters today and prepare to be completely awestruck by them, remembering all the while, that if you have accepted Christ as your Savior, you contain within your very being, the same gift of the Holy Spirit that is spoken of in the book of Acts (THE VERY SAME). The gift of the Holy Spirit, (aka, the Comforter, the Helper) lives within you! That same power, not static power, but dynamic power; ongoing, renewable, dynamic power resides within you. Open your heart, your mind, your soul, your very being to the power of the Holy Spirit. Our loving God bestows it on all those who accept Him.
If you don’t know Christ, accept Him as your Lord and Savior today and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit too.
God Bless!
p.s. Just a quick note referring back to Acts 1:8…when God calls us, He equips us! Amen!
