Acts 4:13 [NIV] ‘When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”.

DAILY READING; Matthew 4; Exodus 25-27; Proverbs 12

Alexander Murdoch Mackay was a Scottish missionary who severally risked his life for the propagation of the Gospel in Uganda.
After arriving in Uganda in 1876, Alexander Mackay, was eager to convert the powerful King Mutesa, who ruled over the country. But it seemed unlikely, because King Mutesa, had a fearful reputation of being harsh and cruel. He was both a slave-trader and a slave-raider, who sent his fierce gangs of warriors out to raid other tribes and capture them to be sold into slavery.
The king sometime allowed Alexander Mackay to preach to him, but was unwilling to give up his evil ways. On Sunday, January 26, 1879, Alexander Mackay was allowed to hold service in the king’s court. That day, his sermon was about John the Baptist who came to prepare the way for Jesus and was beheaded for speaking the truth to king Herod.
After the service, as people sought audience with the king, there walked into the king’s court a tall, Arab trader, followed by a number of black men, who deposited on the floor bales of cloth and guns. The Arab, pointing to these items told the king they would be given in exchange for slaves.
The missionary could see that the cruel and ambitious king was especially eager to have the guns and ammunition and was ready to sell his own people in exchange.
Alexander Mackay felt compelled to speak up and oppose this traffic in human lives, despite the danger he knew it could put him in.
Alexander Mackay said to King Mutesa ‘ The people of this land made you their king and look to you as their father. Will you sell your children, as slaves to some strange country?’
No man had ever dared talk to the king like this before and the people in the court stirred uneasily, wondering if king Mutesa would imprison the bold missionary or perhaps put him to death.
But the king had been touched by the message he heard that morning of John the Baptist willing to lose his head by speaking the truth to the king. And seeing Alexander Mackay, emulating the Gospel he had just preached by risking his life to speak the truth, the king was impressed. He dismissed the angry Arab and announced, “The white man is right. I shall no more sell my people as slaves.”
A decree was written out and King M’tesa put his hand to it.
With a joyful heart Alexander Mackay went to his hut. Later the same day the King sent a message with the present of a goat, commending him for his sermon on John the Baptist.
Alexander Mackay achieved success as a Christian road-maker in Uganda, who paved a way for the preaching of the Gospel.

We are called to operate with spiritual boldness in the world today. In these last days, the enemy and his agents are working overtime to enslave men and send them into perdition and destruction.
As believers in Christ, we are to boldly speak the truth of God’s Word that will set men free.

Isaiah 61:1 says that Jesus came to ‘proclaim liberty to the captives, and open the prison to them that are bound..’

Indeed Jesus has come to set the captives free. And He has given us power and authority, to go into the world and spread the good news of liberty to mankind.
Today, in the world, people are being held in all manner of spiritual imprisonment. Some people are trapped in health conditions, which doctors have termed medically incurable. Some are bound in financial limitations that seem to defy every effort or hard work. Yet some others are in bondage in the areas of marriage, relationships, childbearing, family issues etc.
We are called to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. The negative situations in our streets, offices, communities and environment are opportunities for us to shine the light of Christ and set men free from bondages.
We need to be radical for Jesus and boldly speak forth the truth of God’s Word to shatter the holds of the forces of darkness in people’s lives. To achieve this, it is important that we develop an intimate relationship with God.

Acts 4:13 [NIV] says ‘When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”

Spending time with Jesus is the key to living life with power and boldness.
Through spending time in the Word, we will receive inoculation of faith to boldly preach the Word so that souls will saved and God will be glorified.

PRAYER: Lord, by the Blood of Jesus, I receive the grace to draw closer to You so that faith will be imparted into me to proclaim Your Word with boldness and power wherever I go in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
When you are living and walking in the supernatural everything natural becomes subservient to you, as long as you can ‘see it’, it is changeable. – WORDBITE 222.