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Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.

—Acts 4:29

• Peter and John prayed this prayer to God after their release from arrest for preaching about Jesus. They were ordered to no longer preach in the name of Jesus.

• Threats by powerful people tempt us to be fearful. Realizing this, the disciples asked God to give them boldness, knowing they could not conjure boldness up within themselves.

• Parents at times wish for the ability to give boldness to their children as they try some new sport or venture. It is a hard, if not impossible task to give someone boldness.

• Praise God, the One who can and does give boldness to timid and fearful people. When we need it, we can ask him for it, and through the wonderful agency of his indwelling Holy Spirit, we are “enabled” to be bold.