Tuesday,
March 15, 2022
Prayer for Week 3
Eternal God,
in the reading of the Scripture, may your
Word be heard;
in the meditations of our hearts, may your
Word be known;
and in the faithfulness of our lives, may
your Word be shown. Amen.
Acts 2:14-21, 37-41
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised
his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let
this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as
you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was
spoken through the prophet Joel:
‘In
the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all
flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men
shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves,
both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall
prophesy. And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth
below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to darkness and
the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. Then
everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
Now
when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the
other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?” Peter said to them, “Repent, and
be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may
be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise
is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the
Lord our God calls to him.” And he testified with many other arguments and
exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” So those
who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand
persons were added.
What
did Peter risk when he spoke to the crowd?
What
risks is God calling you to take for the Gospel?
What
are some ways you believe God is challenging our congregation to risk?
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