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. Well,

welcome back, friends and family. I'm so thankful that our Watermark family, this is just one of the

ways that we get to connect with one another each and every week as we spend time in prayer that is

reflective of what we're reading as we make our way through the journey this

year. And so today we're going to take a look at the passage that comes at the end of chapter

10 of Acts and goes all the way through chapter 11. And this is a moment that is kind of coming

to the culmination of the Gentiles hearing the good news for the very first time, their response to it, and then the church's response to it.

As Peter reports to the believers who are gathered in Jerusalem, what has taken place.

And it is, as we said last week, it is one of those moments that the vast majority of us listening to this podcast are incredibly grateful for, because we count ourselves among the Gentiles.

And this is that moment when the Spirit of God falls in a unique and powerful way among the Gentiles and allows the gospel to spread really beyond where it had spread thus far.

And so as I was reading through this passage once again

and just reflecting on ways to pray a few things

that I'd love to draw our attention to,

the first is this.

I think about the fact that it was pretty mind-blowing to

the Jews at that time that this was going to happen, that the gospel was going to spread

beyond the Jews, that this gospel that Jesus had proclaimed would go to the Gentiles. And,

of course, we're so thankful for God's vision to Peter. We're so

thankful for his discernment, for his compassion, for the Gentiles that led him ultimately to go back

and to tell the church about what was going to happen. But it reminds me personally, and it convicts me,

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