Amazing Boldness

My first full series through Lifechurch services and it was a really good one. We had 4 weekends of this series and it was called: Being Bold!

Week one was about Amazing Boldness!

• Boldness is behavior born out of belief!

Boldness: parrhesia(par-rhay-see'-ah); outspokenness, assurance, courage, confidence; to act without fear.

Bold Facts:

1. God gives ordinary people extraordinary boldness.    .....[The leaders] could see that [Peter and John] were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures.....Acts 4:13
2. Your boldness will amaze the world.    .....The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John...Acts 4:13
3. Spiritual Boldness comes from knowing christ.

TIME with Jesus builds your FAITH; which leads to BOLDNESS that produces spiritual RESULTS!

Second week was Boldness Prayers.

What you pray for reflects what you believe about God.

• Pray for boldness.    Now Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Acts 4:29
• Pray for miracles.    Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus." Acts 4:30

Week three was about Bold Speaking.

We speak boldy about what we believe deeply.

• So Saul...moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldy in the name of the Lord. Acts 9:28
• So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord...Acts 14:3
• ...And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Acts 4:31

Acts 4:16-20

Because I believe so DEEPLY:

• I can't help but speak boldly to myself.      And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him...but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. 1 Samuel 30:6
• I can't help but encourage you.    But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today...Hebrews 3:13
• I can't help but lovingly correct you.    Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. Provebs 27:6
• I can't help but lead you toward christ.    For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20

Week four was Bold Obedience:

Acts 5:17-20

Bold Obedience:

1. Usually triggers opposition.     They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. Acts 5:18
2. Often releases God's miracles.    But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail anf brought them out. Acts 5:19
3. Always requires faith.    "Go, stand in the temple courts," he said, "and tell the people the full message of this new life." Acts 5:20

At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people...Acts 5:21

• Delayed obedience is Disobedience.
• Partial obedience is Disobedience.

"We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us quilty of this man's blood." 29 Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!" Acts 5:28-29

Time, Faith, Boldness, and you will for sure get Results!

I pray thee Lord that you give me strength to follow you and put you first with my children......Give me the strength to get through these struggles I am going through, Please dear Lord show me the way I need to go and get me through all my problems and show me I can do it with all my mighty. AMEN!