Excerpt from Open Up Your Heart by Jeff Syverson
June 3
One Accord
Today’s Scripture Readings: Psalm 126:1-3 | 2 Samuel 20:14-22:20 | Acts 1:1-26 | Proverbs 16:18
Today’s Scripture Focus: Acts 1
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8 ESV)
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. (Acts 1:14 ESV)
Armin Gesswein often said, “When Jesus built a church, he first built a prayer meeting.” Acts chapter 1 is the record of that truth. The New Testament church was birthed out of a prayer meeting where “with one accord,” they were “devoting themselves to prayer.”
The result of that prayer meeting was a Spirit-filled church, described in Acts 2 and the chapters that follow. It was a dynamic church that was on fire with the good news.
[excerpt from “One Accord” in Open Up Your Heart by Jeff Syverson. Open Up Your Heart is available on Amazon.com]
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