Habakkuk 2:1; John 10:1-5; Jeremiah 1:10-12 · Led by Dr. Nana Boadum · April 13, 2025 (Palm Sunday)
Palm Sunday at Jesus Generation was a Together Sunday — a prayer-and-outreach service rather than a classic sermon. The morning opened with guided congregational prayer about hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit (the sheep know the Shepherd's voice, John 10), moved through extended worship, and then Pastor Nana led the church into a prayer watch built on Habakkuk 2:1: "I will stand my watch... and watch to see what He will say to me" — before the church went out into the community with Easter invitations.
The seven movements
The sheep know His voice. The service opens in prayer from John 10: many voices speak to us going out and coming in, but the sheep follow the Shepherd because they recognize His voice. The first request of the morning is discernment — train our ears to distinguish the voice of the Father from every other voice.
Calm in chaos is God's work, not yours. Picking up the previous week's word, Pastor Nana reminds the church how Peter walked on the storm because he held a word from Jesus — "Come." How do you stay calm in the midst of chaos? You don't; God makes you calm, keeping in perfect peace the mind that is stayed on Him (Isaiah 26:3).
God is always speaking — position yourself to hear. God speaks once, twice — in diverse ways — yet man does not perceive it (Job 33). In famine He told Isaac, "Don't go to Egypt." The word is what sustains us in chaos: the entrance of His word gives light, and confusion, depression, and ambiguity leave when it comes.
Stand your watch. Habakkuk set himself on the ramparts and watched to see what God would say. A prayer watch is deliberate: you set yourself up to pray and you wait for the word, because you need to hear from God in the storm and on the mountaintop alike.
See what He has said. The prophet watches to see what God will say. God told Abraham to come out and count the stars — He gives a picture with the promise. Until your heart can see what He has said — the stronger you, the freer you, the faithful steward — faith has nothing to fix its eye on.
Pray for blinded eyes to open. The god of this world has blinded minds so the gospel looks like foolishness (2 Corinthians 4:4). With Experience Easter a week away, the church prays over its Operation Andrew lists — seven names each — that eyes would open to the light of the gospel.
See well, and He hastens His word. "What do you see, Jeremiah?" "A branch of an almond tree." "You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word" (Jeremiah 1:11-12). When you see well — for your family, your next step, your church on its way to a thousand — you come into agreement, and God hastens His word to perform it.
The watch closed with thanksgiving — for Holy Week ahead, for graduating students, for open doors — before the church broke to give out Easter invitation tracts through the neighborhood while the children's ministry rehearsed for Easter Sunday.