From this first part of my communion time, the Holy Spirit wants us to understand clearly the fact that He is not depending on us to produce anything for the Lord through our own strength, ability, personality, eloquence, or natural capacity. Rather, He wants us to depend completely upon Him to empower us to become and do what the Lord created us to be. This makes clear that our effectiveness in the Kingdom does not originate in ourselves, but that it comes from the supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, we must look to Him for the boldness necessary to become effective witnesses and instruments of the Lord’s Kingdom. Even if we consider ourselves eloquent speakers, our natural eloquence is insufficient for Kingdom purposes. Eloquence of speech can never defeat the works of the devil. So we need something beyond natural ability to get the job done which is the boldness that comes from the Holy Spirit.

In Acts 4:29–30 we hear this prayer: “Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.” This prayer should become our daily cry before the Lord: that we might speak the Word of God with all the boldness that flows from the Holy Spirit.

We see clearly that after the apostles were threatened because they continued speaking in the name of Jesus, they did not respond to the threats by relying on their own courage or natural confidence. Instead, they prayed for supernatural empowerment. There is a profound difference between merely speaking God’s Word with our natural voice and speaking that same Word under the unction of the Holy Spirit. Words spoken by the Holy Spirit carry life into places dominated by darkness and death and radiate light, by bringing forth life, transforming chaos into order, and causing negative circumstances to change.

So the clear objective for us as followers of Jesus is not merely to speak the Lord’s Word, but to speak them with the supernatural boldness and empowerment of the Holy Spirit which produces supernatural results. The apostles did not ask for a small measure of courage but they specifically asked the Lord to grant them the ability to speak His Word “with all boldness.” This means that there should be no deliberate deficiency in our spiritual boldness. We should do no speaking for the Lord while remaining dominated by timidity, fear, hesitation, or trepidation.

We should desire to be fully loaded with all the boldness the Holy Spirit possesses and supplies, because that boldness carries the capacity to produce answers of great magnitude. This message emphasises the fact that our boldness in speaking the Word is directly connected with the manifestation of the Lord’s hand through miraculous results. The apostles asked for boldness to speak the Word, and then connected that boldness with the Lord stretching out His hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Jesus.

Thus we see, that without the boldness of speaking that comes from the Holy Spirit, we should not expect to see the full manifestation of the Lord’s miraculous power through our lives. We must therefore deliberately ask the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, for the boldness to speak His Word, then trust and know that the manifestation of the hand of the Lord will follow. This agrees with the principle in Zechariah.4:6 which reads these words: “Not by might, nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord.”

Our shouting, high volume, personality, or natural intensity cannot break through the enemy’s resistance. What breaks through obstacles is being filled with the boldness of the Holy Spirit. The apostles prayed for boldness, and the Holy Spirit answered them through Acts 4:31 which says these words:“ And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.”

This is a striking contrast to what often happens in our Church gatherings because we see people themselves generating the shaking, activity, excitement, and commotion. But here in acts, the Holy Spirit was the One who shook the place. The apostles prayed, the place was shaken, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and the immediate result was that they spoke the Word of God with boldness.

I declare that the Holy Spirit is filling you afresh with supernatural boldness and you will no longer depend upon your natural eloquence, personality, strength, intellect, or ability, but upon the supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit infusing you. You will receive abundant grace to speak the Word of God with all boldness, without timidity, fear, hesitation, or trepidation.

I declare that your words will carry the unction of the Holy Spirit so that where there is darkness, your Holy Spirit-empowered declaration will release light. Where there is death, life will emerge, Where there is chaos, divine order will be established and Where the enemy has erected barriers, the power of the Holy Spirit will break through them.

As you speak the Word of the Lord in the boldness of the Holy Spirit, may the hand of the Lord be stretched out through your life to heal, deliver, restore, liberate, and perform signs and wonders through the name of Jesus to transform the lives of people. May your life become a testimony that the power of the resurrected Christ is still working among His people in our generation.

I declare that you will not merely talk about what the Lord can do but you will become a vessel through whom the reality of the Lord is manifested. May great grace rest upon you, and may the Holy Spirit produce through you results that cannot be explained by human ability in Jesus name. Amen.