"Transforming Prayer" Series Week #8 "Boldness" (Acts 4:23-31)

Sunday, November 8th sermon by Pastor Kyle Van Tine 

Transforming Prayer Week #8 "Boldness" - Acts 4:23-31

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Sunday, November 8th  - Pastor Kyle Van Tine - Transforming Prayer "Boldness"   

RESOURCES FOR THE "TRANSFORMING PRAYER" SERIES

            

Growing deeper

Ice Breakers

What would be the strangest or silly thing you’ve ever prayed for?

Looking back on your childhood, what kinds of ordinary or silly things actually scared you?

Questions

1. Praying boldly to the God who created all things (Acts 4:23-24)

Who is the boldest person you know and where would they say their boldness comes from?

Discuss this definition of boldness – Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

How should knowing God is the Creator of the universe affect our boldness?

2. Praying boldly to the God who controls all things (Acts 4:25-28)

How have you experienced persecution, insults, put downs, ridicule or suffering because of your faith?

How should knowing God is sovereignly working all things together for good inform and shape our boldness?

When we’re not bold, what are we afraid of? 

3. Praying boldly to the God who enables all things (4:29-31)

Have you ever experienced God giving you a boldness that wasn’t your own? What was the situation and what happened?

What situations and circumstances in your life do you need to pray for boldness?

How would your Christian walk change if you weren’t scared of anything (finances, persecution, failure, etc.)?

------------- "I Am HEARD!" Ephesians 3:14-21 -----------

I preached this Sunday on the simple/paradoxical topic of prayer from Ephesians 3:14-21. It's been an interesting week studying, thinking and practicing a prayerful life of praying bold, audacious, God-honoring, sin-killing, people-transforming, kingdom-advancing prayers. God has been challenging me to stop praying for Him to simply maintain the status-quo and start praying big prayers for addictions to be broken, marriages to be reconciled, the lost to be saved, families to be transformed and legacies to be established for God's glory and our good!

I was thrilled to pray for a woman who had given her life to Jesus and was born again this Sunday and I hope and pray this message will continue to "bear fruit" in your life and the life of others.

Prayer "I Am HEARD! - Ephesians 3:14-21