“When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly.” (v. 31)

We pray all kinds of prayers.

And, honestly, we should—because God is faithful and good, and because He has invited us to keep asking and seeking and knocking, in prayer.

Yet there remains a prayer that He is sure to answer…which we have been unwilling to pray:

“Give us boldness to speak.”

Too many of us live too much life, wondering why we have said so little about Christ. We know we ought to share this Good News—we know that His is the only name by which we can be saved—but we are rarely bold enough to do it.

This is why we ought to align our prayer lives with those of the apostles. We ought to pray for a Spirit-filled boldness to speak about Jesus. We ought to ask for opportunities and for willing hearers. We ought to pray for His grace, that it might overwhelm all our inadequacies.

It’s a prayer He has answered in history. I am confident it is a prayer He answers still. So pray!

— Tyler