And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Reader! let you and I attend to the blessed contents of this verse, as not simply referring to the Church then in being, but to the Church of God in all ages. Surely such a testimony was designed to tell all the praying seed of Jacob; that the Lord, who is a prayer-awakening, is also a prayer-hearing, and a prayer-answering God, See Isaiah 65:24. And every child of God should learn from hence, that the Lord's presence is always with his people, though the tokens of that presence be not shewn in the same way, of miraculously shaking the place of assembly. And as the company then present are said to have been all filled with the Holy Ghost; so such renewings of the Spirit were intended to teach the Church, that as the Holy Ghost's baptism of the Apostles at Pentecost did not supersede the necessity of fresh effusions of grace, so neither doth the regeneration of his people now render unnecessary constant supplies from the Lord. See Titus 3:4-6. Oh! for the daily refreshings of the Spirit upon ministers and people!