Power from Above
Acts 1:8 The Holy Spirit will come on you and give you power. You will be my witnesses. You will tell people everywhere about me—in Jerusalem, in the rest of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world.
It absolutely flicks my switch when the unlikeliest person does something brilliant – something completely out of the box, something that no one expected. How about you?
In 2009 Susan Boyle walked out onto the stage of the TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent”. She was quirky … really quite odd. When she told the judges that she wanted to be a famous singer, the audience collectively rolled their eyes.
Then she opened her mouth and sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables. She sang it like a superstar. Her performance went viral, with over 600 million views on YouTube to date. Absolutely remarkable!
Equally, no one ever expected a ragtag, uneducated bunch of fishermen and tax collectors to amount to much after following some carpenter around for three years. But Jesus had a plan for them that was bigger than anything anyone ever imagined. Before sending them out one last time, He told them:
Acts 1:8 The Holy Spirit will come on you and give you power. You will be my witnesses. You will tell people everywhere about me—in Jerusalem, in the rest of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world.
That’s exactly what happened. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, off they went. Best estimates are that. as a result in the two thousand plus years since, eight to ten billion people have followed Jesus .
You may well be just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill person. Perhaps others think you’re a bit quirky. Perhaps they don’t expect you to amount to much.
But they’d better watch out when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and gives you power.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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