I’ve been taking a new course at Global University for the last several months on the Book of Acts. And I tell you, the Book of Acts cannot be studied hurriedly. In all my versions of the Book of Acts, the title will say it’s the Acts of the Apostles, but no, the Book of Acts is NOT the Acts of the Apostles, but it’s the Acts of the Holy Spirit working in the Apostles and others who were filled with the Holy Spirit. The name of my course was actually, Acts: The Work of the Holy Spirit in Believers. That’s what the Book of Acts was all about, the work of the Holy Spirit in believers after they were filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Jesus was leaving the earth to go back to Heaven to be with the Father and told the Eleven Disciples to tarry in the Upper Room until they were filled with the Power of the Holy Spirit. Well, there weren’t just the 11 there in the Upper Room. According to Acts 1:15, it says, “Now on one of those days, Peter arose among the brethren, the whole number of whom gathered together was about a hundred and twenty.” If you notice, Peter was there and he had denied our Lord 3 times the night Jesus was arrested, yet he was there waiting for the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room. Why was he there? Because after Jesus had arisen from the dead, when the women had gone to the tomb, the angel had told the women when they saw Jesus wasn’t in the tomb, he said, in Mark 16:7, “But go your way, tell His Disciples and Peter, that He goes before you into Galilee; there shall you see Him, as He said unto you.” Jesus specifically mentioned Peter in that message to the women, to make sure that he knew that he was forgiven by Jesus for denying Him that night. Jesus also pointedly made sure Peter was noticed in John 21:15 and following when he asked him if he loved Him 3 times. The 3 times was to counteract the 3 denials, I believe. Peter was grieved that Jesus would ask him if he loved Him 3 times, but Jesus had to to point out that Peter indeed loved Him, and He knew that Peter loved him, even though he had failed him earlier. What forgiveness and love Jesus offers us. So yes, Peter was there in the Upper Room and he was mightily filled with the Holy Spirit and power and became a powerhouse for the Lord. On the Day of Pentecost, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit, in Acts 2:4, “Acts 2:4 (AMP): 4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].“ There were people from all over from every country round about that spoke languages that the 120 in the Upper Room were speaking through the power of the Holy Spirit and the people outside in the streets understood what they saying. Now, these 120 in the upper room had never spoken these languages before because they had been given the power only through the power of the Holy Spirit and the people in the streets thought Peter and the 120 were drunk and full of sweet wine. So Peter stood up with the other 11 Disciples, oh by this time, they had elected a new disciple to take the place of Judas Iscariot, who had betrayed Jesus, his named was Matthias, and Peter preached so powerfully under the power of the Holy Spirit that day that 3000 people were saved  and were baptized. And that’s just the first two chapter of Acts. This is how the Book of Acts is, it’s not the Acts of the Apostles, but it’s the Acts of the Holy Spirit and it continues on to this day today, 2018. He hasn’t changed one bit in all this time, neither has the Father or the Son. He’s the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Thank You, Lord!