Building The Altar
“Building The Community Altar ”
Acts 4:24,31
24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God.
31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 1:4-8
Jesus gives instruction on “what isn’t for you” but also gives the “but here’s what is for you… and you’re gonna love it”
Acts 2:1-4
Not so they could stand around and say we speak and tounges… this was the empowerment that Jesus was speaking about to be His witnesses.
Some things we see about the church’s prayer in Acts 4:
1. They recognized God’s .
Acts 4:24
24 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.
Acts 4: 25-28
25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:
“‘Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord
and against his anointed one.
27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
2. They went to the .
Acts 4:29-30
29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. 30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
3. They asked for and . Even if that meant .
4. God answered their prayer.
Acts 4:31
31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Two things were affected in this community prayer:
Bibliography: Holy Bible (New International Version 1984), Blue Letter Bible Dictionary, David Guzick Bible Commentary.