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Reminders:

✳ Please regularly check your Planning Center profiles for requests to join your life groups, remove members from the list that no longer attend, or add members not listed. Please ensure that you have added no-reply@churchcenter.com to your email contacts so that you do not miss an email from Planning Center and encourage your members to do so as well.  This will ensure you do not miss a member request or any emails that come from the Planning Center site. Thank you!

Waters Class Schedule:

• 1st Sunday: Discover Waters – after 1st service
• 2nd Sunday: NO CLASSES
• 3rd Sunday: Connect Class – after 1st service
• 4th Sunday: Baptism Class – after 1st service

Waters Help: Need marriage and family care  or have a group member in need of marriage and family care?   Click here:  help resources page  or visit waterschurch.org/help

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Key Verse: Acts 16

We don’t have to wait for First Tuesday for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  God can move mightily in our lives, right where we are, IN OUR DAILY GRIND, in our day-to-day life.  God is active in our gathering and gathering is absolutely Biblical, essential, and critical to the faith but it is not the only place God’s power is active.

Ice Breaker:

Q.  What are 3 of your all-time favorite movies?

Throughout the book of Acts, we see the power of God in the people’s daily grind.  It was not for the revival of the crowd but for the Church to know the power of their God and for those far from God to witness the power of God.

The book of Acts shows us the construct of the first Church.  Peter was emboldened by the Holy Spirit and preached a Holy Spirit-inspired message (Peter 2:38-41).  Saul, going through his daily grind to ravage the Church, became Paul and is now being used as God’s chosen instrument in bringing Jesus to the Gentiles.

1. THE POWER OF GOD CAN BE IN MY DAILY GRIND WHEN I rely on the Holy Spirit and not religious tradition.

Acts 16:16-18 ESV

There is always an unseen spiritual battle.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV

Jesus always rebukes the spiritual issues not the physical when it comes to the demon-possessed.  When disciples could not heal, Jesus addressed the spiritual (lack of faith, prayer, and fasting) and not their physical needs.

Q. What testimony can you share regarding a current spiritual battle that you overcame through fasting and prayer?

2. THE POWER OF GOD CAN BE IN MY DAILY GRIND WHEN I care more for people’s spiritual freedom than their worldly gain.

Acts 16:19-24 ESV

Matthew 6: 19-21 ESV

Paul and Silas could have responded in many different ways, but Paul responds in a way that glorifies God. He casts out a demon from the girl. This had an impact that he may not have contemplated or cared about.  People made money off of this girl and now they are not, which equals problems but before Paul considers any of that, he rebukes the demon.

Philippians 2:3-4 NLT; Philippians 4:10-13 ESV

“I can do all things” is not a mantra for worldly gain.  God strengthens us to do all things, the worldly consequence does not matter because our God has no limit, there is no end to His strength, nor to His power and no end to His compassion and love for His children.

Q. How you have cared for, prayed for, or ministered to someone recently regardless of what they had to lose for the sake of spiritual freedom?

3. THE POWER OF GOD CAN BE IN MY DAILY GRIND WHEN I exalt God.

Acts 16:25-27 ESV

In prison, Paul and Silas prayed and sang hymns.  Instead of focusing on what was against them, they sang to God!   This is what we are supposed to do when everyone around us and those closest to us is against us when the enemy of our soul is coming after us, our kids, our marriage, and our faith.

Midnight is specifically noted in this passage.  ‘A NEW DAY.’  God’s mercies are new every morning.

Q. What recent suffering have you praised God through and how did you experience His mercy?

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV; Psalm 30:4-5 NLT; Psalm 55:16-17 NLT

4. THE POWER OF GOD CAN BE IN MY DAILY GRIND WHEN I prioritize those not yet here.

Acts 16:28-34 ESV

Paul could have run when he saw the guard ready to take his own life, but instead, he cared more for that man’s spiritual freedom than his worldly freedom. Paul and Silas led the guard and his household to Jesus and were baptized!  We too should be more concerned with the work that the Holy Spirit is doing than our prerogatives.

Q. What is a personal privilege or prerogative you had put aside in the past couple of weeks to reach the lost?

Challenge: This week be intentional about inviting the Holy Spirit to move in your daily grind.