ACTS 1: 1-3

Today, this twenty-first century church must know like Jesus what she was anointed and appointed to do. We must have a true conception of our work. Jesus knew what He had come to be and do. You’ve got to know who you are and what you came to do. Luke said “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which He was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen: To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God” (Acts 1:1-3). What Jesus began, continues! In fact, this is what the book of Acts is all about.

It was passed on to the apostles, and now it is passed on to us. The work steadily continues! You can never get us to believe that God is done with us. Contrary to the erroneous thinking of some, miracles have not ceased. It did not end with the apostles, as many can attest even today. That messianic anointing was passed on to the apostles, and with apostolic anointing and power, it is documented that they went everywhere and dynamically witnessed about the risen Savior with signs and miracles attending their ministries.

May we always be inspired by what Jesus said and that which transpired on the mountain of Galilee just before He returned to glory. It still echoes and reverberates throughout the corridors of the church in every age and clime – “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 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 alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matt. 28: 18-20). Here we join with the gospel writer, Matthew, and we declare “Amen” to the word of the risen Savior.

“ …And lo, I am with you always…” This is so undeniably comforting to us, especially in these eschatological times of the apocalypse. He remains with us in these Revelation times of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse riding through the earth. In these times of death and dying, disease and disaster, fire, floods, and earthquakes, we are reminded – the work of Jesus continues through us. Like the early church, we continue preaching, making disciples of all nations, and teaching them to observe all things He so lovingly commanded us to do! As we follow through with what He began, it is my solid conviction that miracles, apostolic miracles, will follow! The work continues!