Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

So two verses, Acts chapter 6 verse 5.

And what they said please the whole gathering,

and there chose Stephen Stephen a man full of faith and of the

Holy Spirit and that lists some other guys and then you down to verse 8 it says and

Stephen full of grace and power,

was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

So here you got Stephen, and he is described in these ways. He's a man full of faith.

He's full of the Holy Spirit. He's full of grace and he's full of power.

Now that's a great description.

Oh, I want to be described in those ways by God's grace.

So a man full of faith believes God, trust God, takes God at His Word, which is obviously evident

as you get into the rest of the story here in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 seven as the word just flows from him. I'll never forget

one of the men who's had the most impact on my life just using Stephen to encourage me one day. He said,

David, you see men who were used mightily of God in scripture and in history and

the word just flowed from him. So be that kind of man full of faith, the word just

flowing from them. So full of faith, full of the Holy Spirit, like that was the

commentary in his life.

The Spirit filled him.

It was evident, and it's evident here in the end of chapter six

as, I mean, everybody's gazing at him in verse 15

sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel

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