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Transforming Power

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.  Acts 2:3-4

 

Within fifty days of Jesus' death and the apparent collapse of His cause, the city of Jerusalem rang with the cries of those who boldly declared that God had raised Jesus from the dead and that they were eyewitnesses to that truth. Hundreds had seen the resurrected Jesus!

As the Holy Spirit descended on the day of Pentecost, cowards became courageous confessors. Humble fishermen became heralds of the King. Something had utterly transformed their lives.

On that day of Pentecost, the resurrection was the keynote of Peter's sermon, causing three thousand people to confess Jesus as Lord (Acts 2:14-41). The earthshaking fact that God had raised Jesus from the dead was the axle and wheels of the early Christian Church.

What difference will the resurrection and the Holy Spirit's power make in your life today?

From, HOPE for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions, by Billy Graham.