This is my Journey through the book of Acts. You are welcome to read and go through along with me if you like. I even welcome your comments as always. The church that I attend will be going through the book of Acts this summer and so I thought that I would include you my journey through it. May the Lord bless and Keep you until HE returns.
Entry # 1
Acts 1:1-5 My thoughts about what has struck me in these verses.
After Jesus was resurrected he spent 40 days on earth before His Ascension into Heaven. He commanded his disciples to stay in Jerusalem until they received what Father had promised. This must not have been any easy task I would imagine but they did as they were instructed to do. What did The Father Promise to them is found in verse five: “John baptized you with water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
I wonder what their thoughts might have been. I know what mine would have been at that time if I had lived then. Sometimes people today might think today.
Thought 1 What or who is the Holy Spirit and why do I want to be baptized with this Holy Spirit? What will I experience when this happens and will l like it afterwards.
Acts 1:8 Jesus tells the disciples will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon them. He goes on to tell them that they will be his witnesses telling people about him in Jerusalem, through out Judea and to the ends of the earth.
This is an echo of the great commission we find in Matthew 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.”
In my own experience with the Holy Spirit I got baptized with in HIM shortly after I got saved. I began to have a few words in tongues and I would see things in the spirit. Sometimes those things frightened but then I would feel a great sense of peace come over me at times especially when I was in great distress. I remember having a deep hunger for the things of God and that I wanted to be healed. It was at this time that The LORD gave me a dream that has come back from time to time. In this dream I was on a stage with wedding rings on my finger and a blurred image with me and we were speaking to women and children about God. After I had this dream I thought that I would need to go to a university to become a speaker for God. The only one that I knew of at the time was Oral Roberts University. Flash forward to 2012 I got married and then God began to work in mind and heart to bring childhood things to the surface. Flash forward to 2014 I Teach Sunday School, writing this blog, and one day I know that Lord will bring all the things that He has proclaimed over me to come to pass. In all these things takes a diligence to study and spend time with the Lord. Praise God He does what He says He will do in each of our lives.
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