IT BEGAN AT PENTECOST

Down through the centuries there have been followers of Christ who were ordinary, run-of-the-mill, average. Nothing spectacular ever happened to them or through them. Then, like Peter and the disciples of old, something happened. They were no longer ordinary, run-of-the-mill or average. They became men and women of God, instruments of power; defeat turned to victory; doubts and fear turned to assurance and joy and faith. They were the ones who “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). Cowardly Peter, who denied Jesus three times (you and I have denied Him many more) became bold Peter of Pentecost who preached and three thousand and five thousand believed in Christ and were added unto the church. The early disciples possessed a strange new quality of life, a life of power which transformed the heart of a wicked Roman empire during the first century...

Yes, you guessed it. It began at Pentecost and their lives were changed.. and millions of others through the centuries have been changed into vital, dynamic Christians by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus promised in His apostolic commission that the Holy Spirit would give us power to be His witnesses. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." (Acts 1:8) 

-- William R. Bright, from “Ten Basic Steps Toward Christian Maturity”

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