This is the Join the Journey weekly prayer podcast.

Unlike our new Tuesday teaching episodes, this time is set apart for guided prayer as we abide in Jesus together.

Here's your host, Wes Butler.

Welcome back to Conversations for the Journey.

Thank you so much for joining us again this week as we continue to make our way through

the book of Acts and as we look for the ways that the Holy Spirit might prompt us to pray back

his word to him. And so I hope that

you are continuing to enjoy what the Lord is teaching you. And I hope that you are continuing to

remain sensitive to how the Spirit would call you to pray. And just that you would, as the early

believers did, as we read about in Acts 2, that you would devote yourself to prayer. And so as we take a

look this week, we are kicking off this week looking at Acts 432 and on into Chapter 5 verse 11. This is a

really interesting passage for us to consider. And so just a few things to kind of highlight here.

Really, what's happening is it's almost

a repeat of the description of the early believers that we see in Acts 2, where it just is describing

who they are and what they're like. And we're told about this generosity that was evident among the

people of God at that time. And yet there's this kind of interesting twist as we see one

particular man who is very generous, sells a plot of land, gives all of it away to help those who

are in need. And then there's another couple that comes behind and they do something similar.

Ananias and Sapphire were told sell a piece land, and they present it as though they're giving

all of it away. And yet with a level of deception, they actually keep some for themselves,

but hoping that people think good of them. So it's a really interesting passage that I'm excited

for us to dive into this week and consider its implications for our life. But as we think about how we want to

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