There is a specific kind of fear that comes just before you say the true thing. Not the fear of physical danger, though that is real for many in this world. The quieter fear of being misunderstood. Of being labeled. Of losing the audience you were just starting to reach. Of someone deciding you’ve gone too far. That fear has silenced more truth than any official threat ever could, because it operates from the inside and does its work before you even open your mouth. The early church did not pray for safety. They prayed to keep speaking. And God moved the building to say he heard them. Peter and John did not ask God to remove the threat. They asked him to make them equal to it. He did. And then some.
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