Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Acts 7:54-60
by: Dorothy Noel.
How I long to be filled with the Holy Spirit the way Stephen was! He saw Jesus and prayed sincerely while in extreme pain. His words infuriated the Jews, but that was not his intent in speaking. When we pray and witness, our words may produce extreme reactions, but that should not be our goal. Like Stephen, even at the point of death, our words must be spoken solely to the glory of God, in hopes of bringing even our persecutors to know the forgiveness of Jesus Christ.