Small Group Notes for 16th August 2026
N.B. Sermon can be heard via our website and YouTube channel and the Paper Service version is on our website: https://parishofmedsteadandfourmarks.co.uk/online-church/paper-services/
Read: Psalm 109
- What’s our initial response to this Psalm?
- How are we able to be honest in our prayers with our betrayals and suffering of all kinds?
- And how does Jesus inspire us with his own response to betrayal and persecution?
- How do we ensure that we ‘love our neighbours and pray for those who persecute us’ (Read Matthew 5:43-48) and pray against the work of the evil one (Read Ephesians 6:10-20)?
- If this Psalm is a congregational prayer against the ‘enemies’ of the church, how might we pray this today?
- Pray now for those undergoing struggles that would seek undermine their faith and relationship in God.
- Give thanks for the certainty of God’s love and victory.
- Pray against the forces that wage war against the Gospel and our church locally as well as internationally, and pray for those Christians who face open persecution and oppression?
- Giving thanks again, that our God has defeated the enemy and won the war (Ephesians 4:8 and Colossians 2:15).