• • • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
    • A Guide to Self-Reflection
    • A chart to help articulate feelings

Acts 3:11-26 (ESV)

¹¹ While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s. ¹² And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. ¹⁴ But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, ¹⁵ and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. ¹⁶ And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.

¹⁷ “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.¹⁸ But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. ¹⁹ Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, ²⁰ that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, ²¹ whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. ²² Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. ²³ And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’ ²⁴ And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. ²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’²⁶ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

• Identify the elements of Peter’s second recorded message. Summarize the message in two or three sentences. How does this message address me?

Acts 3:19-20

• Consider the promise to those who repent. How is it that repentance leads to times of refreshing?
• Reflect on the message of Psalm 32:

Psalm 32:1–7 (ESV)

¹ Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,

whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,

and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

³ For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away

through my groaning all day long.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;

my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to you,

and I did not cover my iniquity;

I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”

and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

⁶ Therefore let everyone who is godly

offer prayer to you

at a time when you may be found;

surely in the rush of great waters,

they shall not reach him.

⁷ You are a hiding place for me;

you preserve me from trouble;

you surround me

with shouts of deliverance.

Are there some sins I need to confess and repent of? What am I gaining by keeping silent? What am I forfeiting?