🗣️: Why God Gives Power

😄 Warm Up

  • Were you ever engaged in an unworthy pursuit? What did you learn from that experience?

📖 Read:

  • Ephesians 5:10-18
  • Acts 1:3-8

❓Ask: 

  • The sermon explains that chronos is linear measurable time (days, months, years) while kairos represents God-ordained pivotal moments or seasons of opportunity in our lives. What potential kairos moments are you experiencing in your life right now, and how might God be calling you to respond to them?
  • According to Ephesians 5:15-18, what does it mean to "carefully determine what pleases the Lord" and why does Paul emphasize being filled with the Spirit instead of just doing more activities?
  • Pastor Filipe emphasizes that Paul repeats five different ways to be careful and thoughtful about how we live, culminating in being filled with the Spirit rather than just
    doing more things. In what areas of your life might you be acting "thoughtlessly" rather than carefully determining what pleases God?
  • How does Jesus's teaching about receiving power through the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8) differ from the world's understanding of gaining power? Where in your life might you be trying to "take" power rather than receiving it from God?
  • In what ways have you received the Holy Spirit? What does this mean for you?
  • Pastor Filipe emphasizes that true faith involves "receiving and becoming" rather than just doing religious activities. What's the difference between these approaches to spiritual life? How has your approach to faith been more about "doing" versus "becoming," and what might need to change?
  • The sermon discusses how not all pursuits are worthy. What current pursuits in your life might need to be reevaluated in light of God's priorities for you?


🙏Prayer:

Share pray requests and pray:

  • Ask God to help us carefully determine what pleases Him and align our pursuits accordingly.
  • Pray for the strength to recognize and expose unworthy pursuits in our lives.
  • Seek guidance from the Holy Spirit to make the most of our kairos moments this week.
  • Invite God's presence into our hearts to transform us from within before we take action.