House of Prayer: Check Your Vision

Pastor Brandon Chism

July 12, 2020

 

HOUSE OF PRAYER: CHECK YOUR VISION: JULY 12, 2020
Pastor Brandon Chism

2 Chronicles 20

1. Read 2 Chronicles 20:1-22. Consider using multiple readers to read the various voices in the narrative. After reading this story, what parallels can you draw to our circumstances in 2020?

2. Jehoshaphat’s prayer in verse 12 exhorts us to consider where OUR eyes are fixed when faced with various trials. This king established a pattern of faithfulness to God in his early days in leadership by cleansing Judah of false gods, idols, and false worship.

CHECK YOUR VISION: What patterns do you need to assess in your own life? How can you, like Judah, lay a foundation of faithfulness to God in your daily life, regardless of life’s circumstances?

3. The people of Judah were unified in their response to the enemy threat and seeking the Lord for deliverance, in spite of assumed diversity of thought on what they should do.

Read Proverbs 18:2. What would be the opposite behavior of a fool in this context?

Read 1 Corinthians 13:3-7. Draw practical correlations between biblical love and the act of seeking understanding (e.g. to go to a person privately to ask about their opinion–seeking understanding–is an act of biblical love).

CHECK YOUR VISION: Where do you need to adjust your responses or behavior to contribute to unity in the church? What steps will you take?

4. Recall experiences of spiritual warfare in your own life (whether blatant or subtly). What methods do you use to combat it?

Read Matthew 8:28-34. Given the power of Jesus over evil, how does this change your attitude or approach to worship?

CHECK YOUR VISION: When worshiping, take a moment just to consider the act of warfare in which you are engaging.

5. As a group, or on your own later, pray that the Spirit would guide your vision to be placed on Him each time we are tempted to become discouraged by our circumstances, combative with others on the details, or to seek our own understanding before engaging in worship.

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House of Prayer: Prayer to the Judge of the World

Pastor Zach Bearss

July 19, 2020

 

HOUSE OF PRAYER: PRAYER TO THE JUDGE OF THE WORLD: JULY 19, 2020
Pastor Zach Bearss

CONNECT
We learn how to pray to our God from the stories and prayers recorded in the Bible.  Choose a prayer in the bible that is a favorite of yours and read it to the group.

ENGAGE
Read the prayer of Moses in Exodus 15:1-18.  What do you learn about who God is and how He interacts with His people?

Discuss these 4 points from the passage of scripture above:
1. WE PRAY TO A GOD WHO SEES (v. 2)  Genesis 16:13 and Psalm 139
2. WE PRAY TO A WARRIOR KING (v. 3). Ezekiel 30:22-23
3. WE PRAY TO  THE JUDGE OF THE WORLD (v. 14)  Psalm 96
4. WE PRAY TO THE LAMB OF GOD. (v. 13) John 3:16

APPLY
Practice prayer this week.  Take some of the great prayers of the bible and pray HIs word back to Him. 

PRAY
Commit to pray for one person during this week for their salvation and restoration into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

House of Prayer: Dare to Hope

Pastor Zach Bearss

July 26, 2020

HOUSE OF PRAYER: DARE TO HOPE: JULY 26, 2020
Pastor Zach Bearss

CONNECT
How comfortable are you with lament: bringing your sorrows to God?  Do you have a tendency to stuff your feelings, be full of self pity and vent to others but not God, or bring your sorrows to Him?

ENGAGE
Read Psalm 13:1-6.  What do you learn from this passage about lament?  What is the importance of the word “but”  in verse 5?

Read these additional passages and discuss what you can learn about bringing your sorrow to Him: Psalm 125:5-6, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Ecclesiastes 7:18, Isaiah 55:9, Isaiah 55:3-5, Matthew 5:4

APPLY
Discuss these 3 thoughts on lament:

  1. PLANT YOUR TEARS WITH PRAYER.
  2. SEE THE TEARS OF OUR SAVIOR
  3. BURY THE SMALL SEEDS OF LAMENT IN HIS SOIL AND HE WILL BRING A HARVEST.

Write a prayer of lament to the Lord.  Write down your sorrows and full range of emotions and ask Him to fit the pieces of the puzzle together into a beautiful story of His goodness and grace in your life.

PRAY
Pray that we will be open and transparent in our prayers to God and allow Him into our areas of disappointment and grief.  

House of Prayer: Strong Willed Prayer Children

Pastor Tom Dages

August 2, 2020

 

HOUSE OF PRAYER: STRONG WILLED PRAYER CHILDREN: AUGUST 2, 2020
Pastor Tom Dages

Read Acts 10 in its entirety and James 4:8

Q-What does it mean that Cornelius was a God fearer?

Q-What is the significance behind both Peter and Cornelius meeting God in prayer (at 3 and noon) and God choosing to communicate powerfully to them in visions?

Q-What did Pastor Tom mean by a strong willed prayer child?

Q-What is one action you can take to becoming a strong willed prayer child?

Q-Would you consider God bringing the Jews and Gentiles together in the body of Christ a miracle?

Q-Explain the two different dimensions of reconciliation in the gospel?

Q-Why do you think so many people can be reconciled to God through faith in Christ and retain so much hostility towards other believers?

Q-Why is it vital for Christians who have political differences to recognize at the start their deeper positional unity in Christ?

Q-Why do all lives matter to God and how is the cross the great equalizer?

House of Prayer: Faithfulness as a Lifestyle

Pastor Brandon Chism

August 9, 2020

HOUSE OF PRAYER: FAITHFULNESS AS A LIFE STYLE: AUGUST 9, 2020
Pastor Brandon Chism