Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come on you: and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem… I was in the train some time ago, and was thinking of this higher life, and it seemed so bright and beautiful — like a star far above me — and my eye fell on the word "receive," and I saw it was not my climbing up but the Lord coming down. It was early spring, and as we stopped at a station it was raining, and I noticed a little cottage where an old woman had put out a pitcher to catch the water, and it was filled to the brim; I said to myself, "My poor heart can never make a garden for my Lord, but at least He can take my broken pitcher of a heart and fill it abundantly." "Ye shall receive power." Do you see that this is His purpose? Then surrender yourself. (M. G. Pearse.) Parallel Verses KJV: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. |
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