Ask & Receive!

“And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word” Acts 4:29 [emphasis added]

Through out this week we are going to be praying bold prayers. I want you to think about your life, what are the bold prayers that you need to be praying right now? We are going to lift up our voices together to heaven and pray those bold prayers and we will see the answers in Jesus Name.

The bold prayers of the disciples were about three things. The first thing they prayed for was great boldness. You might ask, what they demonstrated was that not boldness? I would think they had boldness already. But the truth is that you need to keep praying for boldness. In fact they did not just keep praying for boldness they took it to another level and prayed for great boldness. You and I need to pray for great boldness. As believers we need to pray for great boldness to stand for truth where we work and to stand for truth in the government. Some of us are not in government but we have relatives in government that we know are stealing. We meet with them but all we are interested in is the loot they can pass down to us or are you going to speak the truth? I know what I am saying is not very popular at all. I had a friend whose cousin became governor and his reaction was this is our own time. It is easy to point fingers at the government and abuse people in power but what are we doing about it? If we say we are standing for righteousness then we need to pray for boldness. There is so much going on in Nigeria, for change to occur we need to stand and for us to stand we need to be bold. It is easy to read the story in Acts 3 and 4 and be excited about how the apostles are standing against Sanhedrin and Pharisees but what about you and I? We need to stand for God and that is why we need to pray for great boldness so that we can preach. Preaching in our context in many cases is standing for God. We need to ask the Lord to give us boldness so we can stand for God and so that we can speak the truth in the corridors of power. There are people around us that actually have access to speak the truth but they are failing to speak the truth so what we need to do is pray for boldness for them. You may be concerned about being the only one that is standing for God. But the way God works is that you are not the only one getting this message. That is how the Spirit of God works. For every Elijah God has seven thousand others that have not bowed down to Ba-al. One thing about boldness is when you pray for it God will give it to you.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, give me great boldness so that I can stand and speak as You have appointed me, in Jesus Name.