Send us a textHow are your New Year Resolutions going? Let's assume you are normal... and they aren't going so well. Even the best laid plans go awry. Peter and John can attest to this in today's reading. They HEALED someone, and got arrested for it! As Christians, we often face opposition. This can be in the form of our culture telling us it is wrong to be Christian, or it can be in the form of an app we can't resist opening that will keep us closed off to the world for the next 2 hours. Fortunately for us, God's plans are not like human plans. There are no unknowns with him! He knows all the wickedness that will happen and works that into his plan. He is unstoppable! And because of this, so are we. Even when we face opposition when telling others about Jesus' saving death and resurrection, we know that he can guide us, make us bold and confident. Let us pray that this be so. He is always with us! 23 On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. 25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:“‘Why do the nations rage    and the peoples plot in vain?26 The kings of the earth rise up    and the rulers band togetheragainst the Lord    and against his anointed one.[a]’[b]27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. 29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. 30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

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