Acts 20:7-13
Here was a man who taught and preached all night and the saints were not bored, except the young guy who fell out the window.
Wouldn’t you like to have been in that house that night?! How can a man talk for so long about Jesus and people not get bored? It’s by the Holy Spirit, right. Would you like to be like that?
And, what if Paul were here today and visited your church? Would you re-schedule the program? Would he be allowed to talk all night if necessary?
If he came to our place i wouldn’t let him out of my sight! The poor guy wouldn’t get a chance to rest! Our spiritual hunger would draw the gift of God, the word of God, out of him, and i think that’s why he preached all night on that occasion, because there were spiritual transactions going on. Spiritual transactions are for more than merely giving a message and people listening to it. It’s Jesus speaking thru His vessels to His sheep, who receive it as from the LORD; and the life flows both ways, giving and receiving.
Don’t you want to be a vessel of the LORD like that? Even in a small measure?
Ian Vincent 
January 26, 2010 at 9:19 am
On transactions: it’s just as much a miracle for people to hear and receive the word of God as is the imparting or transmission of the word of God. We sometimes think only in terms of teachers or preachers being anointed, but the hearers also have to be anointed to receive it.