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Hey, much apologies for the different sound quality on this particular

pray the word episode due to some unforeseen circumstances.

The quality is just going to be a little bit different today.

But the word will be the same.

And so let's pray, according to it, Acts chapter one, verse 14,

all these with one accord or devoting themselves to prayer together with the women

and marry the mother of Jesus and his brothers.

On a verse, if you remember the scene in Acts chapter one,

Jesus has just ascended into heaven.

He gathered with his disciples after dying on the cross, rising from the dead.

He ascends into heaven and an angel from heaven says,

he's coming back and they gathered together in Jerusalem just like he had told them to do.

Where Jesus had said, you're going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you

and you're going to be my witness is from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria to the ends of the earth.

So they gather together in Jerusalem and we call the upper room and they devote themselves to prayer.

This is the first of three different times in these initial chapters in Acts.

So we see this phrase devoted to prayer.

Acts chapter one, Acts chapter two, verse 42.

We'll talk about how the church was devoted to prayer and in Acts chapter six,

the leaders of the church say, we need to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word.

And I just want you to get this picture.

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