Posted on Jan 27, 2024 in Bulletin |
Prayer Is Non-negotiable
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- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
- Sun @ 9am – Adult Sunday School
- Jan 29 @ 6:30pm – 5Qs Bible study
- Mar 1 – Heifer Project deadline
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Reading – Acts 4:1-10 ESV
- 1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
- 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
- 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
- 4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
- 5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,
- 6 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
- 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
- 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,
- 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
- 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead–by him this man is standing before you well.
- Call To Worship – Romans 12:11-12 ESV
- 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
- 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 657 – This Is the Day
- UMH 474 – Precious Lord, Take My Hand
- Lord, I Need You – © 2011 sixsteps Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 496 – Sweet Hour of Prayer
- Intercessory Prayer
- Special Music
- Sermon – “Prayer Is Non-negotiable”
- [Acts 4:23-31 ESV]
- 23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
- 24 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,
- 25 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?
- 26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’–
- 27 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,
- 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
- 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,
- 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
- 31 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.
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- [1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV]
- 17 pray without ceasing,
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 352 – It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord
- Benediction
- Postlude