Abundance and Acceleration

We exist to Fill the City with Jesus. 

We empower the willing to come fully alive in God’s presence for the renewal of our cities.

  Imagine a group of people in an authentic community, loving each other honestly, covering each other’s sins with forgiveness, prayer, confession, and encouragement, and serving and supporting each other genuinely. It’s in spaces like these where we begin to see the supernatural work of God within our relationships. 

Use this guide with your community, in concert with the Field Journal, as you Strengthen Yourself in the Lord, Manage Your Household, and Fill the City with Jesus.

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Strengthen Yourself in the Lord

Sermon Summary

Over the past season, God has been taking us through a Holy Transition—from crowds to commissioned, from acquaintances to intimacy, and from waiting to birthing—and now He is inviting us into a season of abundance and acceleration. But biblical abundance is never about personal comfort or prosperity; it is about greater responsibility, deeper dependence on God, and making room for others like Peter in Luke 5:1-11. But like James and John, God is calling some of us to join others as God pours out abundance on them, rather than sitting on the shores of apathy, bitterness, or sulking in insecurity. God isn’t simply looking for people who are familiar with His Word—He’s looking for people who will do His Word, developing not just the outward systems but the inward character to sustain God’s abundance in this season of acceleration. 

Scripture References from the Sermon

Luke 5:1-11   |   Luke 5:4   |   Luke 5:6-7   |   Luke 12:48b

Discussion Questions

• Where do you sense God asking you to “put out into the deep” right now, and what fears or excuses are tempting you to stay on the shore?
• How has God blessed your life in ways that are meant to benefit others, not just yourself? What would it look like to intentionally make room for someone else?
• The disciples’ abundance required community. How can you invite your community into God’s abundance? 
• Where do you need to drop the net you are working on and join someone else’s abundance to help serve them? 
• What is God asking you to do, not study, not think about, but do? (To deny consumer Christianity.)
• If God entrusted you with greater influence, opportunities, or resources tomorrow, what areas of your character would need to be strengthened today to steward that abundance well?
• If God increases His abundance on you, how can you start building a life that can sustain His generosity?

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Manage Your Household 

Practical spiritual activities:

• Worship together – Dedicate time each week to worship with those in your household.
• Pray together – Dedicate time each day for listening to and speaking with the Lord individually, and as a household. Record ongoing prayer requests into your journal or Field Journal.
• Intercede for one another – Ask those in your household what is on their heart, then pray for one another. Refer to “Prayer Requests From Our Community” below and prayer recorded in your Field Journal and pray together for your city.
• Read together – Spend time together reading God’s Word. Consider the Bible reading guide on our website.
• Journal & Share – Share insight from what you’ve been hearing from the Lord and capturing in your journal weekly.
• Take communion together – For those who are followers of Jesus, consider taking the elements together. There is a communion guide on our website.

Event Highlight 

• Seek Week (Aug 16–23) is a week of focused prayer and fasting for our church, city, and nation—a dedicated time to pursue God’s presence together. We will wrap up the week with Seek God Night, an evening of worship, prayer, and encounter.
• For more, visit gracechurchsp.org/events  

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Fill Your City

Prayer Requests From Our Community

• Pray for those facing surgery for cancer and fibroid cysts. Ask that every operating room be filled with God’s presence and that He guides the surgeons’ hands. 
• Pray for Pinehurst United Methodist Church and Pastor Jabe Largen.

Serve Opportunities 

• In the Church – Join the Local Missions Team and help drive impactful change in Moore County by assisting with project planning, organizing local outreach, and serving directly through hands-on, on-the-ground volunteer work.
• In the City – Aug 9 Bless Moore Schools and Aug 15 Grace in the Park.
• For more, visit gracechurchsp.org/serve 

Your City

• There are six areas of the city: family, health & wellness, business, education, government, and media. What are ways you can serve in your city?
• Share Your Story about what God is doing in your life and your city here: https://gracechurchsp.org/story/