Our Sovereign Lord (Acts 4:23-31)

 

The Believers’ Prayer

 ²³On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. ²⁴When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.²⁵You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: 
   ” ‘Why do the nations rage 
      and the peoples plot in vain? 
 ²⁶The kings of the earth take their stand 
      and the rulers gather together 
      against the Lord 
      and against his Anointed One.^[a]‘^[b] 27Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people^[c] of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.²⁸They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. ²⁹Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. ³⁰Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

 ³¹After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.