I read a couple of weeks ago in the book of Acts the second chapter about Peter preaching at Pentecost and the story just blows me away. The beginning of the chapter talks about how the disciples themselves were filled with the Holy Spirit and ends with three thousand people believing in Jesus and being saved! It goes on to say that they "were devoted to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship."
These people that became the first church gave up everything because of their beliefs. They sold their possessions and shared the money with the other believers... The thing that just gets me is the number of people who were saved in a single day. Three thousand!
This raises one question for me... What is stopping us from doing the same sort of thing? By us I mean the church of today. Personally that three thousand people saved covers way more then just the people I know and worry about every day. There are people I know that need the Lord and I can't seem to get them to listen to me. I just don't get what is stopping us my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Is it fear, doubt, worry, life or are we just too busy? God is beyond all of that. Since God is beyond all of that, why can't His work be beyond that too? We all need constant prayer so that we, the workers, can help God make the differences He needs to make. We have (in some cases) become a sleeping church. Wake up my brothers and sisters! We need to be well aware of what He wants for this day and age.
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