Prayer

 Acts 4:31 ESV

 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.


Prayer doesn't change things by itself. God changes things. Yet he often does so in response to his people's prayers.

This is a mysterious truth: that God is sovereign, and all powerful, yet he acts in response to his people's prayers. Note that Jesus has told his people to wait expectantly for the gift of his Holy Spirit, so they were acting in obedience to him.

God wants his people filled with the Holy Spirit. This isn't so much so that we can do signs and wonders. By implication, he wants us to be holy as he is Holy.

Someone filled with the Holy Spirit will speak the word of God with boldness. They won't speak their own words and pass them off as God's. They will proclaim to people the message of the Bible.

'Heavenly Father, please pour out your Holy Spirit upon us. May we speak your word with boldness, and be holy as you are Holy. For the glory of Jesus we pray, amen'.

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