One speech that strikes me everytime i read it....that calls me to read it every now and then....Acts 7:2-53, Stephen speaking in front of the council and the high priest.
I tell ya... That guy knew his stuff!!
It's a must read. It's like the whole old testament in 2 pages :o)
Stephen was able to stand in front of the whole council... Some of the most important people in Israel and give them a history lesson. HOW did he do that?? (this should be on that tv show ;o)
Stephen had power given to him by the Holy Spirit. Stephen was "full of faith and power [and] did great wonders and signs among the people (Acts 6:8)."
I want faith like that... To be able to stand up in front of people, or even just one person, and PROVE my faith! I want the Holy Spirit to be able to speak TRUTH through me!
Listen to this! Acts 7:55-56 - "But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, 'Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!' "
That's incredible faith!!
And moments after that, Stephen went to be with Jesus. Acts 7:59-60 - "And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, 'Lord, do not charge them with this sin.' And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
More proof of his incredible faith...
I want to be like that. I want to be filled with that Holy Spirit power.
December 04, 2005
December 02, 2005
In Need Of... The Walk.
If you think about it..... The way you walk says something about you.
It's easy for me to stereotype...... "These people walk a certain way." Example: Models, athletes, ganstas, girls, guys, guys with really big egos (lol... u know that swagger!)...........etc........
There's a special walk for Christians, too... It should be just as visible to people, but it's much more difficult to learn those steps. It's more about how you portray yourself to the world than about how you put one foot in front of the other.
Philippians 1:27 says: Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Philippians 2:14-16 - Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God wihtout fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
That's the walk... Showing people through your actions that you are a Christian; that you are trying to live as Jesus lived. Proving who you are on the inside by what you do on the outside.
It's easy for me to stereotype...... "These people walk a certain way." Example: Models, athletes, ganstas, girls, guys, guys with really big egos (lol... u know that swagger!)...........etc........
There's a special walk for Christians, too... It should be just as visible to people, but it's much more difficult to learn those steps. It's more about how you portray yourself to the world than about how you put one foot in front of the other.
Philippians 1:27 says: Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Philippians 2:14-16 - Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God wihtout fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
That's the walk... Showing people through your actions that you are a Christian; that you are trying to live as Jesus lived. Proving who you are on the inside by what you do on the outside.
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