Signs Following

“Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” Acts 4:29–30

Peter and John healed a lame man at the temple gate (Acts 3:1–10). A crowd gathered, and Peter preached the resurrection of Jesus, blaming the Jewish leaders for crucifying Him (Acts 3:11–26). So, the priests, Sadducees, and temple captain were furious; especially because Peter was teaching resurrection, which the Sadducees rejected. So they arrested Peter and John and held them overnight (Acts 4:1–3).

The next day, Peter and John were brought before the full Sanhedrin; including Annas, Caiaphas, and other high-ranking leaders (Acts 4:5–6). Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, boldly declared:“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 The council couldn’t deny the miracle; the healed man was standing right there but they commanded Peter and John never again to speak or teach in the name of Jesus (Acts 4:18). Peter responded:“Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God.” Acts 4:19.

The leaders threatened them further but couldn’t punish them openly because of public support. So they released Peter and John with a warning. Peter and John returned to the other believers and reported everything. The threats, the trial, the command to stay silent. In response, the whole church prayed together, not for safety or escape, but for boldness and divine confirmation:

Do you think believers -the church need to pray same prayer today? Yes.If the threats, court cases, censorship laws, social-media mobs and outright violent persecution that are mounting in many nations today are not the exact moral equivalent of the Sanhedrin’s “speak no more in this name,” I do not know what is.Therefore the church should pray the Acts 4 prayer again; corporately, explicitly, regularly until heaven shakes and the gospel roars. And signs and wonders in the name Jesus becomes common event in our cities.

“Why did the heathen (ethnē, nations) rage, and the people imagine vain things?The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.” Acts 4: 25–26

Psalm 2:5 says, “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” Do you believe all this foaming and scheming is not evidence that Satan is winning; it is evidence that God is laughing (Ps 2:4). The rage is pre ordained to backfire and serve the very kingdom it tries to destroy. Pilate’s gavel, Herod’s soldiers, the Sanhedrin’s bribes, the Roman cross all **did exactly what God’s hand and counsel “determined before to be done” (Acts 4:28).Likewise, today’s anti conversion laws, algorithmic throttling, prison terms, and social credit downgrades are unwittingly setting the stage for the next Acts 4 style outpouring.

if you believe this! Pray, pray and pray for the outpouring of the knowledge of His glory in our generation.