You Will Receive Power!

Acts 1

Honestly, there’s too much good stuff in a whole chapter of Acts to write just a brief devotion. But I’ll try! I will tell you that it’s helpful to keep verse 8 in mind as you read through the book of Acts. In fact, you might as well go ahead and memorize it now if you haven’t already, because that’s a truth for you and me just as much as it was for the original apostles.

The rest of the book shows what happens when the Holy Spirit indeed empowers believers to witness for Christ. The book opens with a small band of believers huddled in an upper room in Jerusalem, waiting for this promise of the Father. It ends with Paul witnessing for Jesus boldly and without hindrance to the ends of the earth – even while he’s under Roman guard!

Along the way we get to see how these ordinary, uneducated men and women turn the world upside down with the gospel message in the power of the Holy Spirit.

That’s what our world needs today! They need to see the power of God on display in the lives of us ordinary people who dare to take God at His Word, whose own lives are completely transformed by His mercy and grace, who are madly devoted to the fellowship of His Body, who call upon the name of the Lord with expectant faith, who rejoice in being counted worthy to suffer disgrace for His name, and of whom the world will take note and say, “These men have been with Jesus.”