a drop of water

from a few weeks ago at coast home group (oikos)…just some random thoughts on Acts 2:42-47
Dear Heavenly Father,

42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
I pray that we would be devoted to your word; that we would be constant and courageous in prayer, steadfast and attentive and unremittingly caring and valuing fellowship and the breaking of bread together. I pray that we would include people in our lives so that we have community and accountability for our actions and thoughts and ideas.

43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
I pray that we would see wonders and miraculous signs in the lives of people around me; emotional and physical healing, relationships between friends and family restored, things that are impossible with man, but possible with you God, be done. There are so many needs around me that seem impossible, so many physical and emotional needs, that I can not even begin to solve. There always seems to be a matching of physical with emotional healing, and so I pray for both in the people around me who I see are hurting.

44All the believers were together and had everything in common.
I pray that we could count our possessions, our money, our time, our energy as gifts and resources from God, which we have been given the opportunity to meet the needs of people around us. I pray against selfishness and the pride that says we have a right to what we have earned, when in reality, everything good is a gift from God.

45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.
I pray that we would be willing to sacrifice our own safety and security to make someone else’s position better. I pray that we would resist the American value that what we own defines our worth and realize that all we have the right to do is give what we have and be defined in Christ’s calling in our lives.

46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
I pray that we would meet daily to pray together and to sharpen each other and to keep each other accountable to God’s calling. I pray that we would have glad and sincere hearts when we eat together and spend time together, not to puff ourselves up but to help each other run the race as if to win the prize, being vulnerable with each other.

47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
I pray that you would allow us to release our plans for our own safety and security, so that we might follow your directions in our lives, gaining the relationships and being the positions to be your hands and feet in this world, so that the number of hearts praising you would be added to daily.

in Jesus name, amen.