Together in Prayer

Exodus 21-22; Psalms 12; Acts 4 

“On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. ‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke and by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: ’Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?’”

Acts 4:23-25

When the religious authorities in Jerusalem opposed, rebuked, and threatened Peter and John, what did these disciples do?

They immediately turned to God in prayer and reaffirmed his sovereign authority over their lives and the sovereign authority of his Word. The presence of the Lord and the Word of God guided the early church through the persecution, tests, and challenges of this new movement.

With our tests and challenges, where do we turn to find perspective, encouragement, and new strength as we, too, live on mission with Jesus?

We can find our encouragement through prayer and God’s Word; yet, if we ignore his Word and the presence of God in prayer, we will have only confusion and pain...

“Lord Jesus, you have promised to be with us to the end of the age; for that I am grateful, for your glory.”