Boldness Originating from Unreal Reality

[S] Acts 4:17-21, 31 --

 ¹⁷"But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name."
 ¹⁸And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
 ¹⁹But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;
 ²⁰for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."
 ²¹When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;
 ³¹And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. 

[O] What inspired them not to stop speaking about Jesus was really based on the overwhelming excitement and conviction fo what they witnessed in their lives.  It was so real and part of their lives that they cannot keep inside but to let it overflow out of their lives.  Nothing can really stop them even the threatening from the Jewish leaders who deep inside also knew who was behind all this.  This sort of excitement and out-pouring of conviction from believers' hearts is a pre-amble to a mighty movement of the Holy Spirit (as seen in v. 31).

[A] Before asking God to fill me with His Spirit and do mighty works, I should first make God's message from the Bible about His love toward me as real as possible in my life.  Don't just settle with a knowledge of what happened back then, but to bring it into my current life such that it will interact with it and produce an overflowing excitement from deep within.  Without such basis, I don't believe there is any substance for the Spirit to work in my life.

[P] Dear God, please fill my heart with Your real substance as I continuously meditate on Your word such that Your Spirit will have a way to work into my life the power of Your Love.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.