Word For Today: Tuesday, May 10 The Lord Added To The Church Daily

WORD FOR TODAY by PASTOR JESUS FIGUEROA

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Tuesday, May 10

The Lord Added To The Church Daily

First Topic: The Church In Expansion And Growth

Series of the Book Of Acts

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

Acts 2:47 (NKJV)

Daily Reading Plan

1 Chronicles 27-29

Bible Versions:

Acts 2:47 (MSG) — 47 exuberant and joyful, as they praised God. People in general liked what they saw. Every day their number grew as God added those who were saved.

Acts 2:47 (NLT) ― ⁴⁷ all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.

Acts 2:47 (NIV) ― ⁴⁷ praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Thoughts Of Devotion:

The Book of Acts reveals the early stages and development of the church. Within its pages we discover how the first believers carried out its mission to preach the gospel from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. We see how this came to pass through a divine and human combination, The Holy Spirit working and mobilizing all believers everywhere! In Acts 16:5 it tells us, “So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.” The church took momentum and growth in a supernatural and miraculous way.

This morning, if a there were words define the early church, it would be “growth and multiplication.” It is abundantly clear that the church, in its commencement, experienced accelerated and fast growth. Scripture teaches us that every day new people were added in the congregation. The Bible testifies about thousands being added in one day. There was an explosion of growth! Wherever one saw, there were hundreds of salvations at a time. The evangelism that was practiced by the early believers yielded an abundant and lasting fruit. The preaching of the Word brought continuous fruit. Wherever the word was preached, there was a multiplication of salvations, “Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.” (Acts 6: 7).

The Book of Acts gives us the model, the example and design that we must follow today. Today we can experience the same abundant and supernatural life that the church in its beginnings had, if only we follow their example! As believers we are challenged to live lives filled with the Holy Spirit, to see a strong and firm church despite the attacks that the enemy can throw at us. In Matthew 16:18 it tells us, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” The church today is called to experience growth and multiplication, this is the model we see in the Book of Acts!

Foundational Scriptures:

Acts 4:4 (NKJV) ― ⁴ However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Acts 5:14 (NKJV) ― ¹⁴ And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

Acts 11:24 (NKJV) ― ²⁴ For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.

Acts 11:21 (NKJV) ― ²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Acts 19:20 (NKJV) ― ²⁰ So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.

Acts 12:24 (NKJV) ―²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

1 Corinthians 3:7 (NKJV) ― ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Acts 2:41 (NKJV) ― ⁴¹ Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

Acts 16:5 (NKJV) ―⁵ So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily

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