Rhapsody of Realities 14 November 2025: Empowered to Change Our Word
SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
The Lord Jesus spent about three years with His disciples before His death, burial and resurrection. During the period, they learnt from Him, walked with Him, watched His miracles, heard His message, and received direct impartations from Him. They had a message, they had the calling, and they had been trained.
Yet, before they could take a step into ministry, He gave them this vital instruction: “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). In other words, even though they were ready in every other sense, they needed one more thing: the promise of my Father.
That promise was the Holy Spirit, and without Him, their efforts wouldn’t produce divine results. But with Him, they would be effective. And that’s exactly what happened. Luke, in Acts 2:14-41, describes how the same Peter who had once denied Jesus (Luke 22:61-62) stood up boldly on the day of Pentecost and delivered a powerful message that transformed three thousand lives: “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them…” (Acts 2:14).
He didn’t stop there. In Acts 4:4, after he and John healed a lame man, he preached boldly again and the Bible says, “…many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.” That’s effectiveness. That’s divine speed. Through the Holy Spirit, Peter’s outreach expanded rapidly, resulting in thousands being saved within a very short time.
Today, we have the same Holy Spirit, and the results are the same. He’s made us effective witnesses. We’re not trying to get into that place of power; we’ve already been endued with power (Acts 1:8). We’ve been empowered to change our world as able ministers of the Gospel (2 Corinthians 3:5-6). We’re making an impact, transforming lives all over the world. We’re functioning exactly as God intended, with power, with dominion, and with undeniable results.
We’re moving with the speed of the Spirit, for the Bible says, “A quick work will the Lord do, and cut it short in righteousness” (Romans 9:28). This is not by might, nor by human power, but by the Spirit of the living God. It’s God’s wisdom, God’s speed, and God’s ability at work in us. The Gospel is prevailing. The nations are open. The harvest is abundant. And this is all to His glory!
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for the Holy Spirit who lives in me and has made me effective in life and ministry. I’m walking in power, wisdom and dominion, producing results that bring you glory, advancing your Kingdom with divine speed, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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FURTHER STUDY:
Acts 2:14-22Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: You Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let this be [explained] to you so that you will know and understand; listen closely to what I have to say.
15 For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is [only] the third hour (about 9:00 a.m.) of the day;
16 But [instead] this is [the beginning of] what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [[a]telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions ([b]divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [[c]divinely suggested] dreams.
18 Yes, and on My menservants also and on My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy [[d]telling forth the divine counsels and [e]predicting future events pertaining especially to God’s kingdom].
19 And I will show wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and smoking vapor;
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the obvious day of the Lord comes—that great and notable and conspicuous and renowned [day].
21 And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [[f]invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord—Christ] shall be saved.
22 You men of Israel, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and shown forth and commended and attested to you by God by the mighty works and [the power of performing] wonders and signs which God worked through Him [right] in your midst, as you yourselves know—Read full chapter
Footnotes
- Acts 2:17 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
- Acts 2:17 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- Acts 2:17 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- Acts 2:18 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
- Acts 2:18 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- Acts 2:21 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
Acts 2:37-41
37 Now when they heard this they were stung (cut) to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles (special messengers), Brethren, what shall we do?
38 And Peter answered them, Repent (change your views and purpose to accept the will of God in your inner selves instead of rejecting it) and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of and release from your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself.
40 And [Peter] solemnly and earnestly witnessed (testified) and admonished (exhorted) with much more continuous speaking and warned (reproved, advised, encouraged) them, saying, Be saved from this crooked (perverse, wicked, unjust) generation.
41 Therefore those who accepted and welcomed his message were baptized, and there were added that day about 3,000 souls.
Acts 1:8
8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6
5 Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.
6 [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Hebrews 11:17-40 & Ezekiel 8-10
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
John 12:1-11 & 1 Chronicles 14
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