Prayer Focus: For The Wesleyan Church to boldly embrace God’s mission in here, near, hard and far places.
Scripture: Acts 1:4-8
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses …” (v. 8)
My friend Jervie reminds me often that in the kingdom we work out of rest instead of resting after our work. What’s the difference? The giants of Scripture — Moses, David, Jesus, Paul — all spent time in relative obscurity before going into all the world. There’s significant transformative work to be done in the waiting.
In Acts 1, Jesus has given the disciples a vision of what they would be doing. But he told them they first needed to “wait” (v. 4). Their call was to be his witnesses in all the world. That same call is our call too.
Remember, a witness is someone who tells what he or she has seen. Somehow, we turned “witnessing” into something like annoying others into our churches. — You might be relieved to know that’s not what witnessing is. — Witnessing is simply telling others what they actually want to know. When you are full of the Holy Spirit, as the disciples were about to be, others will want to know what you know.
God doesn’t need you to be in a hurry. He needs you to be full of the Holy Spirit. Will you put in the time to wait before you boldly embrace the mission to go?
Prayer Prompt: Father, anything great and lasting that happens in and through your church will happen because your Spirit will come upon us. As you fill us, give us the grace and boldness to tell others what you have shown us. Amen.
Billy Wilson
*This entry is part of the “EMPOWERED: 15th General Conference Prayer Initiative,” created to guide Wesleyans in 30 days of intentional prayer for The Wesleyan Church and its 2026 General Conference.
Used by permission. Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®.
