We trace Stephen’s final message in Acts 7 to ask a simple, hard question: what kind of house are we building for a God who cannot be contained by stone? We challenge one another to give God full access to every room of our inner lives during these twenty-one days.

• context from Acts 6–7 and Stephen’s charges
• Isaiah’s claim that God transcends temples
• Solomon’s confession that heaven cannot contain God
• shift from buildings to bodies as God’s dwelling
• practical image of rooms we keep off-limits
• invitation to grant God full access for true change
• courage, love, and the cost of witness in Stephen’s story
• prayer for surrender and renewal during the 21-day focus

Heavenly Father, when I think about Stephen that day in the face of that angry mob, it said that his face shone that he could see Jesus standing up in the face of that angry mob. And that he was brave enough to say what to challenge their infrastructures, to challenge what they knew, not because he didn't like them, because he loved them. He was like, the Lord wants to dwell within you, not in this temple. So Lord, I pray for your people today that the place they would make for you, the dwelling places that you choose to habitate, humans, humanity, Lord, that we would give you free access to every room in these temples. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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