Foundational Understandings
1. You desire to mature in faith
2. You have a desire to bear fruit for the kingdom
3. You recognize you need help

“All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.”
Acts 1:14 (ESV)

“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” Acts 6:4 “But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Acts 2:42 (ESV)

“What the “watching” believers are to do in these texts is not watch for Christ’s return, but watch their own life in light of the return of Christ. Believers need constantly to be “awake” to the nature of the times they live in—the “last days” of eschatological “fulfillment without consummation”—and to orient their lives accordingly”.

Douglas Moo

II. Our prayer is to be watchful
a. Watchful against the temptation to judge one another according to worldly standards
b. Alert against bad theology and company
c. Watchful to not fall into sexual idolatry
d. Watchful to avoid being complacent about the dangers of greed
e. Watchful against idolatry
f. Watchful against self-centered religion
g. Watchful against all temptation both to sin and temptations to lose faith in Jesus
h. Watchful for the will of God

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