The Witnesses’ Assurance

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened. For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old. On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: “’Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against His anointed One. Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed. They did what Your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable Your servants to speak Your word with great boldness. Stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.” 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 4v21-31 (NIV)

One of the greatest assurances that God’s witness has is that He is aware of everything that is going on. Indeed “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15v3, KJV). In addition to that, we know that when we call on Him He hears us, for His Word tells us that “The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are attentive to their cry;” Psalm 34v14 (NIV). Moreover, 1 John 5v14-15 (AMP) says “And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.” Amen. Apart from the assurance of His being aware of everything going on and of answering us, as witnesses we are also assured of His Presence.

Supplementary Text

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Matthew 28v19-20 (KJV)

Prayer

Almighty God, we thank You for hearing us, and being with us always, in Jesus name, amen.