Notice where the angel told the apostles to go immediately after delivering them from prison - the temple. That was one place where they would have been seen and heard easily by the same people who had thrown them in jail. No other place could have been more dangerous at the time because the scribes, Pharisees and doctors of the Law were always in the temple, just waiting to pounce upon anyone that so much as mentioned the Name ‘Jesus.’ But God is so strategic; He had a plan. He knew He had to train His people, so He sent the apostles first to the temple to preach and teach His people all the words of this life.
Today, we’re the ones that carry this life of God in us, and just like the Master and those apostles, we have the words of eternal life in our mouths (John 6:68). Even if we’re persecuted, arrested and imprisoned for speaking these words, we do not fret or get discouraged because they cannot arrest or imprison the eternal life within us.
That’s why I give you this charge today: Go and preach the words of this life. Preach it on the mountain top, preach it in the valley low, preach it anywhere and everywhere. Preach it because that’s the best thing you can do! The man who preaches the Word of God can never live in lack; he will always see the manifestation of the Spirit of God and the demonstration of His greatness in his life. The more he preaches it, the more understanding of it he has and the more it becomes real to him. When you begin to preach God’s Word, you may start with little or no boldness, but just continue and before you know it, great boldness will come upon you. Then God gives you more opportunities to declare His Word, and causes signs and wonders to follow you. Hallelujah!
