Prayer S5:016 Acts 8:26-40

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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

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🗓️ 19 April 2026

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"In today's Conversations for the Journey, host and Care Director Wes Butler leads us in praying through Acts 8:26-40. This week, Wes leads us in prayer for three things: for our church to be sensitive to God's sending, for the lost to have an increased hunger and curiosity for Christ, and that we would have a hunger to be witnesses for Jesus Christ to the lost. Have questions about faith? Check out Great Questions every Monday night at Watemark. https://www.watermark.org/events/6872-great-questions If you would like to submit a prayer request to the Watermark prayer team, you can do so at https://www.watermark.org/prayer You can also check out the Join The Journey Jr. Podcast: Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-journey-junior/id1660089898 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SG7aaE1ZjjFkgB34G8zp3?si=c960a63736904665 Check out the Join The Journey Website for today's devotional and more resources! https://www.jointhejourney.com/ Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Watermark-Community-Church/author/B0BRYP5MQK?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1755623322&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=8aeeec3b-6c1c-416d-87ae-5dfbbb6981df"

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0:00.0	This is the Join the Journey weekly prayer podcast. Unlike our new Tuesday teaching episodes,
0:15.3	this time is set apart for guided prayer as we abide in Jesus together. Here's your host, West Butler. Well,
0:24.0	welcome back to Conversations for the Journey. I'm so honored and humbled that you all continue to come
0:29.7	back and join us for this weekly time where we get to focus on praying through the passages
0:34.7	that we're reading this year on the journey.
0:42.1	So this week we are finishing up the eighth chapter of the Book of Acts,
0:46.7	and this is such an important story and one that probably is very familiar to you,
0:50.4	of the Ethiopian eunuch and his encounter with Philip.
0:56.6	And so I love this passage where Philip is sent by the Holy Spirit to a place where he doesn't really know why he's going there or what he's doing, but then he hears this Ethiopian
1:01.1	Unic reading the Word of God and then asks him, hey, can I help you? Essentially. And so that's what
1:06.8	we get to step into today is this amazing story and for this week just to focus on
1:11.8	what the spirit does. And so as I was thinking about this passage and thinking about where
1:17.0	the Lord, I think, would have us spend time praying today. There were three things that I just
1:22.4	want to draw our attention to. The first is, I think about the marker that we have here at Watermark of being
1:28.1	ascending church. And this is a really remarkable moment in the life of the early church, where Philip
1:33.9	is told to go somewhere by the Holy Spirit. And then these words are just double underlined in my
1:39.9	Bible, where it just says, and he rose and went. And then later in the story, as Philip does
1:46.1	encounter this Ethiopian eunuch, we see the Ethiopian eunuch say, how can I understand these
1:51.2	scriptures that I'm reading unless someone guides me? It reminds me of that passage in Romans 10,
1:56.7	where the apostle Paul says, how can they call on him in whom they have not believed, and how are they to
2:01.5	believe in whom they have not heard, and how are they to hear without someone preaching to them,
2:05.9	and how are they to preach unless they are sent? And then it says this great quote from the Old Testament,
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