Acts 4:29-31 NIV – Now, Lord, consider their threats and 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.
The two main elements of the early church’s prayer instruct us greatly. They asked the Lord to enable them to speak God’s word with great boldness, and for the Lord to stretch out his hand to heal and perform signs and wonders. What is difference between the mega-power of the early church and for our church today? There is no difference! We are part of God’s eternal church, from early history until Jesus returns. That same great power is at work in our lives and communities now.
When think about signs and wonders, we often overlook the signs and wonders that God has already done in our own lives. Have we not experienced healings, signs and wonders in our lives that have confirmed the gospel preached to us? Have we not experienced deliverance that has brought us to believe in Jesus as the risen Lord?
Today, let’s receive resurrection faith by worshiping with the song “Believe For It” by CeCe Winans (Click here).
As you do, pray: “Lord, stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders among us! In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
– NB