Speaking the Language of the Holy Spirit...

Acts 4:23-31 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves,and the rulers were gathered together,against the Lord and against his Anointed’— for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. 
As we look back on the early church, it is easy to become... jealous.  It looks so exciting, and it was!  The Holy Spirit was rushing in and controlling His people to share the Gospel with others. As they were praying and waiting for His leading, one of the things they did was pray the scriptures. They understood that the pushback they were receiving for sharing the good news was the same as David had alluded to - a resistant world with darkness in high places.  They were speaking the language of the Holy Spirit, the one Who had led David to write and record these truths of Scripture. And they asked for boldness, the exact thing Jesus had told them the Holy Spirit would provide.  Let us not be jealous, for these can be great days as well.  We have the same message; we have the same Holy Spirit; we face the same darkness.  Imagine what God will do when we get on the same page.