Bible book Acts

Bible Reading Acts

The book of Acts is very different than Matthew , Matthew talked a lot about Jesus and Acts talks a lot about Peter and the others who went to share the Gospel.

I liked that Peter was sort of the first missionary .

It tells about the many travels Peter did, what miracles happened when people started to believe and received The Holy Spirit.

To me that made clear how much we need The Holy Spirit.

U cant have faith without Him.

U need The Holy Spirit to open up heart , to make u understand The Bible and to hear God's voice.

Some situations u clearly see The Holy Spirit at work is in :

Acts 2:  They were all together and they received The Holy Spirit, they started to talk in different languages as The Spirit guided them in .

Acts 4:  Petrus talked to the Sanhedrin , he was filled with The Holy Spirit, later after he was released . and in verse 31 they where filled with The Holy Spirit.

Acts 7: Stefanus was about to be stoned to death , he was filled with The Holy Spirit.

Acts 10 :19 The Holy Ghost tells Peter what to do.

Acts 16 : 6-10 The Holy Spirit dos not let them go to Asia and Bithynie to spread The Gospel, in Troas Paul gets at night a vision about a Macedonishe man who asked him to come and help them, They knew by this vision that God wanted them to go to Macedonie.

I think in this book u can see that God wants to let the disciples know that The Gospel is also for the gentiles, for us.

U can see it in the story about Philip and the Ethiopian .

That man was a eunuch ,he traveled from Jerusalem , he believed in God but when he was in Jerusalem he couldn't enter The Temple to praise and worship God because 

he was a eunuch .

How great it was for him that God send Philip to explain The Word to him , and he got baptized.

I like how God showed to Peter the vision about the food . 

All the different food was on that sheet that came down from heaven.

Than a voice said; Get up Peter , kill and eat.

He didn't wanted to eat it cuz he never eaten something unclean or impure.

But the voice came to him another time saying ; " Do not call anything impure that God has made clean"

By this he knew that it was oke to go to Cornelius house to also share The Gospel.

In those days it was a against the law for a Jew to associate with or visit a gentile.

I think its really beautiful how God showed him this.

Even in the way Paul was called by Jesus u can see that The Gospel is for the gentiles to.

Saul chased Christians , he wanted them death, its just amazing how God calls a person like him to share His Word .

The most bad persons , God can call them , break them and change them .

God guided them where He wanted them to go, so when Paul was trown into jail , God had a plan with it.

When Paul went to Rome , i think this was also part of His plan to let The Gospel to be told there.

In so many things where we would see a disaster ( like to be put into jail) Paul stayed strong into faith and shared The Gospel .

He was not afraid!

God was with him. 

We can learn from this , when we are in situations where we don't see a way out , 

we know we can trust God to be with us in that situation.

When reading this book u get to know so much about the many travels The apostles did , how The Holy Spirit guided them .

And spoke to them .

We now want to hear God's voice and be guided by The Holy Spirit and me myself find it sometimes difficult.

But reading the book of Acts i see that its not difficult.

They talk so easily to God and do miracles through The Holy Spirit.