SCRIPTURE: Acts 4:23-31
“Enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.” (Acts 4:29)
What would we pray for when we are threatened because of our faith?
(Honestly, most Christian today would pray for safety, not boldness).
I have prayed for more boldness when things were safe, and I was hesitant.
But to pray for more boldness just after you’ve been threatened and tortured?
These guys are on fire, they are absolutely confident in God and in Jesus.
This isn’t the behaviour of people who ‘made up’ a story about Jesus’ resurrection.
They really believe it, and are willing to suffer for it… and die.
Our prayers today are lame in comparison to this prayer.
We’re constantly asking for things, but not usually for greater boldness.
If God IS the sovereign God, and Jesus IS the resurrected Lord, what will I pray for?
More boldness, more demonstrations of God’s power in Jesus Name, more Holy Spirit?
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, our prayer meetings seem so tame, almost lame, in comparison. Light the fire in our hearts to melt the lead in our feet!