“Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: ‘Rulers and elders of the people!’” – Acts 4:8 (NIV) Acts uses the phrase filled with the Holy Spirit repeatedly across the book, and each occurrence is followed immediately by…
Category: Devotionals
“Do not quench the Spirit.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (NIV) Stephen’s charge against the Sanhedrin in Acts 7:51 is one of the most confronting statements in the New Testament: you stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears, you are just…
“All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” – Acts 2:4 (NIV) The first miracle the Spirit performed through the newly filled disciples at Pentecost was an…
“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and…
“Then Peter said, ‘Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.’” – Acts 3:6 (NIV) We return today to the lame man at the…
“But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to them, they changed…
“The evil spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?’ Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they…
“God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.” – Acts 19:11-12 (NIV) Luke’s phrasing is careful…
“One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world.” – Acts 11:28 (NIV) Agabus appears only twice in the book of Acts, and both appearances are…
“Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. ‘Don’t be alarmed,’ he said, ‘he’s alive!’” – Acts 20:10 (NIV) Paul was preaching so long that a young man named Eutychus, sitting in a…