DAILY?READINGS: Gen. 8:20 to 9:29; Job 11-12; Matt. 6:1-18
…they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. Acts 2:41
Many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. Acts 4:4
Three thousand souls saved! Five thousand souls saved! The surprise is that the men leading this evangelical surge were scathingly referred to as “ignorant and unlearned men”. Where then was the secret to their power? Surely it was that they were “filled with the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:4). Perhaps one of our failures today is that we depend more on our programs and techniques to the exclusion of the Holy Spirit. May we all covet to be filled with the Holy Spirit. —W. H. Burnett
O fill me with Thy fullness, Lord, until my very heart o’erflow,
In kindly thought and glowing word, Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show.
—Frances Ridley Havergal