Title: Success in Life (Acts 04:23-31)
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To go on a long trip, you need to pack. You will also need to plan and book your tickets. Even if you are leaving in your own car, you must do a safety check in advance so that you do not fail on a long-distance trip. When it snowed a lot, didn't a car not equipped with winter gear not exceed Daegwallyeong or Misiryeong? Likewise, on the journey of life, we must prepare and check through prayer.
You have given us a new year, but it would be foolish to welcome the new year without prayer. Occasionally, if you greet the new year with fasting prayers, birth prayers, all-night prayers, etc., you will have a wonderful year. In the new year, we should not live a life of being led, but a life that influences and leads people around us. However, to become a successful person in life, you must first be a ‘person of prayer’.
We cannot stop praying “when we have finished praying” (verse 31). The prayer you have made up your mind for must be completed to the end. Of course, praying is not easy. There must be reasons such as poor environment and health, lack of time, lack of spare time, and distrustful family members. But it is difficult, but we must pray. It is because prayer is difficult, but the answer is that great.
You cannot experience the filling of the Holy Spirit with the proper measure of prayer as you are “filled with the Holy Spirit” (verse 31). When we actively cling to and pray earnestly, the work of being filled with the Holy Spirit takes place. They say that when they prayed, “the place where they were gathered shook” and “they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.” Whenever we gather to pray, the work of being filled with the Holy Spirit can happen. Let's believe and pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
“He spoke the word of God with boldness” (verse 31). Those who pray become bold. You can accomplish your mission. They used to be the disciples who had run away in fear, but now they have changed their lives with courage through prayer. Originally, they were disciples without learning, but after praying, they became powerful apostles and evangelists. Let's pray and start the new year boldly.