Strength to Walk through the Valley

Acts 4: 29-30 “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.”

Peter and John were teaching and performing miracles in the name of Jesus. They were brought before the Sanhedrin and were threatened to stop doing both. The Sanhedrin wanted to go beyond just threatening Peter and John, but at that time they did not, because the people were praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had witnessed. So, Peter and John were given a stern warning and let go. They go back to their fellow believers, reported all that transpired before the Sanhedrin and upon hearing this, all of them raised their voices in prayer.

In verse 29, they say “Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. What they ask for in prayer has challenged and encouraged me in the last few days. There are challenges in life that we wish we did not have to walk through, and at times the only way is through them. Reading these words from scripture has reminded me to ask for the strength to enable me to walk through what God has laid in front of me, along with a boldness that comes from knowing that He is walking with me through it all.

Friends, if you are going through something, look to Him to be filled with His Strength as you walk through your valley so that the mountain in front of you is moved rather than feeling crushed by the weight of it.

God Bless.