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Reflection/Discussion Questions:

1. How do you discern whose voice is speaking as you listen to voices in the mainstream media, social media, opinions and assumptions of others? How do you discern God’s voice?

2. Have you been speaking life or death over yourself and your life?

3. Have the people that you have been surrounding yourself with been speaking life or death?

4. Are there certain voices you believe you should stop listening to based on the fruit of those conversations?

5. Who are the voices in your life that demonstrate fruit that you want to listen to more?

In Luke 22:39, Jesus shows us patterns of prayer. He was tempted to disconnect from the Father’s will because the cross seemed too hard to bear. Yet, he persevered because he was strengthened by prayer. Twice we see that his disciples are following him physically but disconnected spiritually. The disciples followed Jesus to the place of prayer, but they did not pray. While Jesus was praying, the disciples were sleeping.

There are seventeen accounts of Jesus praying in the Bible. The majority of these accounts of Jesus praying are in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke 11, the disciples ask Jesus how to pray because they saw Jesus modeling a lifestyle of prayer. Likewise, we should model our lives as lives of prayer. In this season, God is calling us to prayer. We are going to be gathering together as a church (following state and local guidelines) every day throughout the month of August in corporate prayer.