Daily devotion – The book of Acts for 2026!

Pastor Keith   -  

Beginning the Book of Acts

This Sunday we begin a new study in the book of Acts. It is the only book in the New Testament with no formal ending—why? Because we, the Church, are still filling in the pages of God’s work through His people on earth until He comes and calls us home.

The book of Acts records what Jesus continues to do and to teach by the Holy Spirit, through us His believers, since His ascension into heaven.

Why should we study the book of Acts? Because it reveals God’s purpose, God’s plan, and God’s power—the very things every believer has been called to walk in and to complete.

So much of what happens in many churches today is according to man’s purpose and man’s plan, and therefore, because man is powerless, God’s work is often not accomplished. The psalmist warned us of this very truth:

“Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psalm 127:1).

Jesus taught the same principle when He said:

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).

And the Lord reminds us through Isaiah:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD (Isaiah 55:8).

With this in mind, I am deeply excited to see how—through faithful teaching and humble obedience to this great book—we, the Church here in Secret Harbour, will see God’s plan come to fruition, not only personally in our own lives, but powerfully through the body of Christ together.

The book of Acts contains 28 chapters, 1,007 verses, and over 24,000 words, and so we will also be filling our Wednesday evenings with this incredible portion of God’s Word.

As I have been preparing and reading through this masterpiece of Holy Scripture, I urge you to begin reading it—and re-reading it.

Acts begins with a promise from God the Father. Now let us watch that promise be fulfilled:

“Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49).

May the Lord do His work in us, and through us, as we journey together through the book of Acts.