Tuesday 26th May

Acts 1:1-14

The five points from Lee's talk on Sunday were:

• Command

• Promise

• Commission

• Question

• Prayer

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Read the passage together.

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1: Jesus told his disciples to stay in Jerusalem and wait because the Holy Spirit was to be outpoured from heaven.

In what areas of our life do we need to be obedient to God's voice?

2: Jesus promised the father would send the gift of the Holy Spirit just as he promised.

Why should this change the way we live our lives forever?

3: The disciples were commissioned to go to all ends of the earth telling people about the good news of Jesus.

Are we taking Jesus' commission seriously enough in our own lives?

4: The angels appeared to the disciples when Jesus was ascending to heaven. They asked why they were looking up. They knew Jesus would ascend. The disciples probably had a moment of doubt and hesitation as to what was happening forgetting what Jesus told them beforehand.

In what areas of our life have we taken our focus off Jesus and become distracted by other things?

5: We are called to be a community that devotes itself to prayer.

Share with one another how healthy your personal prayer life is.

Discuss how we can encourage each other to be persistently praying for revival in our own lives and here on Newcastle.

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Prayer - pray for personal revival and for the Holy Spirit to come in power so that we would see many people saved. Remembering the words from Psalm 24 - why not ask the Lord to reveal if our hearts and hands are clean? Spend some time repenting and asking the Lord for forgiveness.