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Introduction
Waiting on school to start back.
August 14 - Both kids in school all day long - Staci and I will have a full day each week without the kids!
My day off!
Beach trips, restaurants, etc. we haven’t done.
Don’t call me on Friday!
I will not answer!
Hard to wait - BUT know it’s going to be WORTH the wait.
So much of life is spent waiting - in the grocery line, the car line at school, the dr.’s office, etc.
Single?
Waiting for God to send the right person.
Will it ever happen.
Waiting for the gift of a child.
Waiting for God to answer a prayer, or to move you out of current circumstances.
Two facts:
God is NOT in a hurry.
- He waited several thousand years to send a Messiah.
- 2,000 years after Jesus ascended we’re still waiting on Messiah’s return.
God is faithful.
- He will complete the work He started in you, and it will take a lifetime!
So
Interesting passage - Jesus just ascended to heaven - gave apostles specific instruction.
“Wait in Jerusalem for me to fulfill my promise.”
Interesting passage - Jesus just ascended to heaven - gave apostles specific instruction.
“Wait in Jerusalem for me to fulfill my promise.”
Disciples wait, but their waiting is not characterized by sitting around and twiddling their thumbs.
Purposeful waiting.
Waiting - for God to answer a prayer, for the next season of life, etc.
How do you wait purposefully?
You keep doing what you know to do.
So basic but so important as you wait on the Lord.
Three ways we wait:
Keep gathering with the church.
In a moment Jesus was gone - ascended back to the Father - and the disciples left alone.
Specific command: wait for the Spirit.
Back to upper room - 120 people.
In this room, in a few days, Jesus is going to give birth to the church.
Jesus appeared to more than 120 after the resurrection.
At one time, more than 500.
() Probably some believers who witnessed resurrection returned home.
But, some who witnessed the resurrection still failed to believe.
First church a small church - 120 people - Mary present.
A mom gathered to worship her Son!
She believed that her son was the sinless Son of God! Imagine a mom telling you that her child was sinless and to be worshipped!
Last time we see Mary in Scripture she’s gathered with believers worshipping Jesus, her son.
Jesus’ brothers present - they thought He was foolish.
() But the resurrection proved that they had been the ones who were foolish.
Brothers of Jesus, Mary, and others in upper room together - waiting for Jesus to fulfill His promise.
Jesus had given a clear command: “Go!” But, as we study Acts, it sure seems as if the early church “Stays” a good bit as well.
Believers of Jesus are together often.
When you are waiting on God, what better place is there to be than around the people of God? , “Don’t neglect to meet together.”
When your life seems to be in a holding pattern -(1) give in to the temptation to drift away from God’s people or (2) cling to God’s people for support and encouragement. 2 Questions:
What does how often you gather with body of Christ say about your faith in Jesus?
Many grew up in church every Sunday, but that’s not the norm anymore.
We gather as long as there isn’t something else that captures our attention more than gathering with the people of God.
If you minimize corporate worship, don’t be surprised when you begin to minimize your relationship with God and your children do the same.
What does the way you gather with body of Christ say about your faith in Jesus?
(Gather out of ritual or expectation?)
Gather to worship.
You can worship anywhere, but let’s be honest, as beautiful as the sunset over the mountains is, there’s something life-giving and transcendent about gathering with the redeemed.
Gather to connect.
You need the relationships, the support, the prayer.
In this rooms, stories of God’s faithfulness that you hear only when you connect.
Gather to grow.
How well have you grown apart from the church?
Not very.
You grow best among the people of God when Word is taught, applied, and lived out together.
You’re not going to grow well apart from church.
Gather to go.
We go best together.
NOT lone ranger ministry but equipping, sending, praying, rejoicing in the harvest, etc.
(Going to Wendy’s - Luke wanted to know why they got the order wrong - Because they are not Chik-fil-A - trained to work as a unit.
For us, more we gather with purpose more we’re trained for purpose.
Keep praying fervently.
I told you this was basic.
BUT SO PROFOUND AND POWERFUL.
Jesus told disciples, “I will not leave you as orphans.”
() The temptation to feel that Jesus had abandoned them, but He had not.
Instead, He had made a way for them.
(Teaching Hudson to swim - he just wants to know I’m right in front of him.)
Jesus revolutionized prayer because He gave us access.
Lord’s prayer - “Our Father.”
Jesus’ favorite way to refer to God was Abba - completely foreign to the disciples.
Refer to God in the same way as earthly father?
Ascended Christ at right hand interceding for us.
(, ) Through death and resurrection Jesus has made a way for us to be in a relationship with God so that we may pray to Him as our Father.
Pray fervently because:
Ascended Christ at right hand interceding for us.
(, ) Through death and resurrection Jesus has made a way for us to be in a relationship with God so that we may pray to Him as our Father.
Prayer precedes doing.
- (Revolutionary!
Praying together?)
Don’t neglect how formative spending time with God is for your life.
Remember ?
James wrote what he wrote because he lived it.
Reminder that they were reliant on God.
Remember: God does a work within to do a work through.
Prayer changes us.
Don’t know exactly what believers were praying, but we know what Jesus had promised.
They would receive the Spirit and power.
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