Stretch Out Your Hand To Heal - Audio

Bakersfield First Assembly

Acts 4:29-31 (NIV) – [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 miraculous 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. Stretch Out Your Hand to Heal 1. PRAYED UP “Prayer is not an escape from responsibility; it is our response to God’s ability. True prayer energizes us for service and battle.” (Wiersbe) 2. SHAKEN UP Luke 21:25-28 (NIV) – [25] “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. [26] Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. [27] At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” 3. FILLED UP Acts 2:4 (NIV) – [4] All of them were FILLED with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 4:8 (NIV) – [8] Then Peter, FILLED with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people!” Acts 9:17 (NIV) – [17] Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be FILLED with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 13:9 (NIV) – [9] Then Saul, who was also called Paul, FILLED with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, “You are a child of the devil!” “It is our privilege to claim repeated infillings to make good our leakage and evaporation.” (F. B. Meyer) Isaiah 44:3 (NIV) – [3] For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your descendants. 4. SPEAK UP Acts 4:15-18 – [15] So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin and then conferred together. [16] “What are we going to do with these men?” they asked. “Everybody living in Jerusalem knows they have done an outstanding miracle, and we cannot deny it. [17] But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn these men to speak no longer to anyone in this name.” [18] Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. Acts 4:19-20 (NIV) – [19] But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. [20] For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”