WORD 2day: Monday, 5th week in Easter time
May 19, 2025: Acts 14: 5-18 ; John 14: 21-26
Jesus initiates the next phase, the Phase 2... and he promises his Spirit as One who will reside in our hearts and instruct us of the right thing to be done at the right time. The Spirit of truth and counsel, the Spirit of strength and determination. It is the Spirit that makes the apostles and disciples so strong and powerful even in the face of the plotters and persecutors!
The Jews and the non Jews together plot to get rid of the apostles but what triumphed was not the plot but the power of God. The Power of God was getting more and more manifest in the life and works of the apostles and they were bearing an unimaginable witness to the Christ-experience.
What did the apostles do to acquire such power as to stand before the authorities and systems which seemed so frightening earlier - it was their perseverance. They were threatened, they were beaten up, they were arrested and they were flogged, but nothing could stop them for living their life for the Lord and for the Lord's message.
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