Acts 1:8
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Before
Jesus went back to heaven, He told His disciples to “wait for the
Promise of the Father”. (Acts 1:4) There are thousands of promises in
the Bible, so which promise was He referring to?
The early church knew
which promise Jesus was referring to because He had told His disciples,
“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the Promise of the Father, which
you have heard Me speak about. For John truly baptized with water, but
you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many
days from now.” (Acts 1:4–5) Jesus was referring to the baptism in the
Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues. (Acts 2:1–4)
Jesus wants you to know
the value of the Promise of the Father because He said, “You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be
witnesses to Me...” He did not say, “You shall do witnessing,” but “You shall be witnesses”. In other words, your very person will be a witness to Him!
This is because the
power you receive when you are baptized in the Holy Spirit is the same
power that so anointed Peter that the sick were laid on the streets for
his shadow to fall on them and heal them. (Acts 5:15) Even handkerchiefs
and aprons from Paul’s body were so saturated with the anointing of the
Spirit that when they touched the sick, people witnessed diseases and
evil spirits leaving the sick! (Acts 19:12)
That same power caused a
Holy Spirit-baptized church member, who prayed in tongues, to
experience God’s healing power when he laid hands on his mother who was
in an advanced stage of cancer. And because she was healed, she became a
witness of the love and power of God to her friends and unbelieving
relatives.
Beloved, when you are
baptized in the Holy Spirit, you will be a witness to others that no
problem, trial, disease or sickness is a match for the power of the
Spirit in you!
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