Acts

If you haven't realized this yet, I just want you to know God is doing a BIG thing right now in the lives of His people and His churches. Read any major blog of any major church and there is this common theme of reading God's Word, listening to His voice and living out the book of Acts.

As an example, my mom called tonight to share what Pastor Leo preached about this morning. It was near identical to the sermon I heard this morning. God's speaking to His leaders and thank goodness, they are listening. Here's the story that Leo shared this morning that blew my socks off!

San Diego is a big military town so Mission Valley Christian Fellowship has always been involved in supporting the troops at home, providing for families and what not. So one particular soldier, I don't know his name so I'm going to call him Bryan for narrative's sake, but his wife is Hispanic and only speaks Spanish. Bryan's been praying for his wife's salvation for some time and has taken his wife to several churches around San Diego. Her biggest complaint has always been that she can't understand the preachers because her English is poor.

Finally, Bryan brought his wife last Sunday to MVCF because the church has a reputation of being so supportive of the military families. Now you have to understand, Leo is just Leo. He's loud, he talks fast and furious, he gets on random tangents and using tons of idioms and sayings. And somehow in the midst of all of this, God works wonders. Well, Bryan and his wife sat through the service and at the end, Bryan's wife went up to pray to accept the Lord. She went straight to the ONE prayer team couple that speaks fluent Spanish.

When Bryan was asking his wife what was different about Leo's sermon, she said, "Because he was preaching in Spanish." Bryan was stunned. Leo preached the whole sermon in English. The Holy Spirit had literally translated the Word of God for this woman so when she heard the Word being preached, it was in HER language.

4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them.
5Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7Utterly amazed, they asked: "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? 8Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? 9Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11(both Jews and converts to Judaism Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!" 12Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?"
Acts 2:4-12