The Place Was Shaken

"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." ~ Acts 4:31

After Peter and John stood up to the Sanhedrin – the same ruling council that had condemned Jesus probably just a few weeks before (Matthew 26:59) – they rejoined “their own people” and prayed boldly, a prayer of praise to God and request for His inspiration and power. It was a kind of second revival – another “aftershock” - after the wind-and-fire events of Pentecost (Acts 2) and the earthquake at Jesus’ death (Matthew 27:51). Peter and John had preached Christ boldly right in the temple courts ever since. Should we not also be about the business of boldly proclaiming Jesus … praying together our praise to God … asking for His inspiration and power in us, used to His glory?