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Thank you for joining us today, August 1st, 2021! Please take a moment to fill out your connection card. Once that is completed, we encourage you to join us in worship and be ready to engage with our sermon. You can find the worship songs below as well as upcoming events and the sermon note outline. And if you are an Orchard regular, there is a "Give Now" button for you to give your weekly offering below.
Worship with Orchard
One of the things our community loves to do every time we gather is worship the Lord through song. While we understand this may not be your jam, we would ask that you would open yourself to the idea of musical worship and allow this time to prepare you to hear from our speaker and the Bible.
Sermon Notes for August 1st
Series: Church On the Move
Title: Powerful Prayer | Acts 4:23-31
Problem: We don’t turn to God.
Acts 4:23-24 (NIV)
23 On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 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.
Point: Prayer is our response. (vv. 23-24)
Acts 4:25-28 (NIV)
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.[a]’[b]
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.
Point: God is sovereign. (vv. 29-30)
Acts 4:29-30(NIV)
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.”
Point: God enables His work. (vv. 29-30)
Acts 4:31 (NIV)
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.
Point: God responds. (v. 30)
James 5:13-16 (NIV)
13 Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.