Title: The Community Prays with One Heart
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Acts 4:23-31
In Acts 4:13, we can see how the Lord changed Peter, who was illiterate.
Verse 21 tells us that the rulers freed Peter and John, not just releasing them, but threatening them.
At this point, I think about how I would have felt.
If someone who enjoys worldly power and feels more powerful than me threatens never to tell me about the signs appearing, I may have compromised by nodding my head for fear of losing my life.
However, Peter and John did not fall without strength.
In verse 23, they said, “They made known to their associates all the words of the priests and elders.
Here again, I look back at myself, who is different from them.
You may be afraid that you will be able to tell your co-workers what you were told not to say, even under threats. Or maybe he had a desire to tell the Lord about it by himself and try to do it on his own.
But they humble themselves and believe they had faith in each other.
Because of the faith that the Lord had connected, they did not measure each other and shared their hearts.
And they did not discuss this matter with each other and made a decision, but with one heart they reported it to the Lord who made all things.
Here again I see my weakness. The Lord breaks my heart through them as I pray for my own peace rather than praying for the saints, rather than praying for the poor.
They prayed earnestly to the Lord that they would boldly speak His word from the threats of the world.
I prayed for a miracle to happen in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, not their name, and I was then filled with the Holy Spirit and was able to boldly preach the word of God.
I recently climbed Mt.
The world I saw from the top of the mountain for the first time was so beautiful that I hummed all the worlds that the Lord God had made.
The clouds where you can feel the footsteps of the Lord, the dazzling sunlight like the love of the Lord, and the green forest covered with various colors...
Wouldn't it be great if money could buy this beauty?
But we can't.
Only those who make up their minds to climb the mountain and seek it can see this beauty.
May you always seek the Lord. So I hope you can feel that mystery with your body and your heart. I believe that our living Lord will find us when we pray always and seek to know His secret things.
As I said today, what I want is for all the saints to become one.
Even a single flower is beautiful.
The Lord has clothed us so beautifully that each of us is so beautiful with the Lord's anointing.
However, I believe that when these flowers come together one by one to form a flower garden, their fragrance and beauty will have an indescribable brilliance.
The Lord will truly be in us when we create a flower garden of faith that encourages and shares faith with all the saints, and a flower garden where love for the Lord never withers.
Like Peter and John, I hope that the community of Jesus Village will be the first to reach out and share what I am lacking and what my difficulties are, acknowledging that I cannot do it alone.
At that time, I believe that God will set us free, restore, and strengthen us.
Finally, the word of the Lord.
Again I tell you the truth, if two of you agree on earth to ask anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am among them. Amen.
As in verse 31 today, I pray that the place where we are all gathered will shake and that the crowd will be filled with the Holy Spirit to become the Jesus Village Church that boldly preaches the word of God.