“Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.”

I know I have. I regret it, I have asked forgiveness for it, but I have done it. I think if we were all honest, we would all say this has been true for us. I tell myself it was different in Peter’s day. Yes, it was different: they were thrown in jail for speaking up. Stephen got stoned for speaking up. I do not have to worry about either one of those. Yet, there are times I do not speak up.

Dear Father, I come and seek your forgiveness for keeping my mouth shut. I come and ask that you walk with me so that I might have the boldness needed to spread your word in my corner of the world. Help me to give more then money. Help me to send others not only to far reaching parts of the world, but to downtown or around the corner or next door. Lord, help me to realize that this city, this neighborhood, needs to be clean as well. Lord, help me to go myself.