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Scripture
We cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20

Observation
These words by defiant apostles must rank right up there with Patrick Henry’s, “Give me liberty or give me death!” They were words bigger than the persons who spoke them. Like bulldozers, those speech bubbles have plowed a trail that billions have followed.

What was the gunpowder that fired those words? EXPERIENCE. A fresh relationship with Christ, not just memories of the past three years, but a vivid, present connection, caused them to speak then and think later.

Application
Revolutions fizzle out. The patriotism that sparks them burns up in a few short years. What of our Christian revolution? Is there any life left in us that comes from Peter and John’s defiance? It my fizzle in others, but I pray that it will not be so with me.

Prayer
Father, may my experience of Jesus be so effervescent that it causes me to to say things bigger than me and to commit to obedience greater than my strength, because I am working out of a vivid revelation of you. Amen.