A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                      PART IV - XI

"We, all the believers who have gathered in Jerusalem, were overjoyed.... Peter and John are once again in our midst.... They just told us of their night in prison and their meeting with the religious leaders.... It is very clear that the Holy Spirit has been with them throughout their ordeal....And that He enabled them to stand firm in their faith.... All we can do is praise our Lord..... And may He help us, His people, to continue speaking His Word with the same boldness and clarity as Peter and John have done.... We may well be threatened by the religious leaders.... Just as Peter and John were.... But we know one thing.... We must be faithful to our task.... Moreover, we trust that as we step out in faith The Lord will contimue to perform many more miracles for the glory of His Name."....Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn how the other believers responded after Peter and John shared with them what they had experienced at the hands of the religious leaders.....

 

 

                   ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS 

                                                    PART IV - XI

The believers listened very carefully to everything Peter and John told them of their experience of their night in prison and their meeting before the religious leaders. They realised the Holy Spirit had been present with Peter and John during their ordeal and had greatly helped them to be victorious over their circumstances. So they turned to God in thankfulness and praise for His faithfulness to Peter and John as you can read in Acts 4:24-30 

When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God, "Sovereign Lord," they said, You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through Your servant, our father David: Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.* Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against Your Holy Servant Jesus, Whom You anointed.They did what Your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak Your word with great boldness, Stretch out Your hand and heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through Your Holy Servant Jesus."

These believers had become a bold people as well as you can see from the prayer they prayed as led by the Holy Spirit who reminded them of Psalm 2:-2 which they used a part of their prayer

Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.

Moreover, after hearing the testimonies of Peter and John, these believers sensed a great boldness rising up in each one of them to continue speaking about Jesus and to trust Him for many more miracles to take place.