40 Days of Praying - Day 32
Prayer: Pray we might become an army of prayer warriors! Pray for passion in prayer!
Mark 1:35-36 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Acts 1:14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 4:31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 6:3-4 Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word."
"The Church has many organizers but few agonizers. Many who are willing to pay, but few who are willing to pray. Many who are enterprising, but few who are interceding. Never have so many left so much to so few." Leonard Ravenhill
"Prayer is rebellion against the status quo."
"A day without prayer is a boast against God." Owen Carr
"The truly GREAT people of the church today are the people who pray. It's not those who believe in prayer or even those who know how to pray. It's those who actually take the time to pray!" S.D. Gordon
Jesus prayed. His disciples prayed. We don't. Jesus launched a movement. His disiples turned the world upside down. The North American church...um. Jesus prayed. His disciples prayed. We don't.
O God stir in us a passion for prayer. Make us hungry for it. Make us long for it. Make us hungry for you. Make us long for you. TEACH US TO PRAY! Like Jesus, for Jesus and through Jesus, amen.
Grace.
posted by Tod Brown at 6:53 AM
1 Comments:
We have such power in the Holy Spirit, the exact same power Christ had here on the earth. Remember the story of Jonah?
Jonah is in the belly of a big fish. It is from the whale’s cavernous and dark belly that Jonah makes a prayer of faith: “But you brought my life up from the pit.” Look at the verb tense. He didn’t say, “You will bring my life up from this pit.” Rather, “You have already done it.” Isn’t this the prayer of faith? Jonah speaks with as much assurance as if it were done already. He knows the mercy and power of God.
We need to pray like Jonah, we need to pray like Christ. We need to pray with an assurance of faith. We just need to pray.
February 10, 2005 at 9:08 AM
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