when they had
prayed.....
they the word of God with
boldness. Acts 4: 31
The New Testament Church prayed fervently for the power of the
Holy Spirit to be upon their leaders. God heard their prayer and look at the
results. The Word of God is preached when prayer goes forth. Churches spring up
when the Word of God is preached.
It is important to stress
that fervent prayer is what makes the difference. Sometimes, I look at people
who claim to be having a prayer meeting. You see some of them sleeping and
others just whiling away the time. How would you feel if someone fell asleep while
talking to you? You would think that he is either disrespectful or very
uninterested in you.
Jesus prayed passionately
for the will of God to be done in His life (Hebrews 5:7). The ministry of Jesus
was a great success! Two thousand years after these prayers, churches are still
being started, books are still being written, songs are being composed about
Christ, and more people are volunteering their lives to the service of our
great God.
You will have great success
in your ministry when you learn how to pray fervently. Whenever you do not know
what to do, do what Jesus did! Jesus shouted when He prayed! He prayed until He
was sweating! Read it for yourself!
And being in an agony he
prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling
down to the ground.
Luke 22: 44
Fervent prayer always
works.
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