Praying Church (Daily Devotional)

Welcome friends, we continue to talk about some of the prayers that we can pray for the church. Today, we will talk about the importance of us being a praying church, that is God’s dream that we would be a church that engages in prayer, a church that will seek His face, a church that will position ourselves in that place of intimacy with our God. When the Lord Jesus spoke about the house of God, a beautiful picture that He brings to our mind is that the house of God/ church must be a praying church, it must be a house of prayer, we see this in Mathew chapter 21, verse 13. We must be a house of prayer for all nations. There is an importance to this, as we go back and look at the early church in the book of Acts, we see that they practiced this so much. No matter what happened, they were praying. When there were good things going on, they were praying. When there were challenges, persecution, opposition, threats coming against some of the leaders of the church, they immediately went face down and sought the Lord, they went back to the scriptures and said, ‘Lord, you have spoken in your word and may you do and accomplish those things that you have promised to us and that is the way the early church sought the Lord. We find that they always sought God’s intervention and that is an encouragement for us today. May we be that church that prays at all times no matter what is happening around us. In Mathew chapter 18, verses 19 through 20, the Lord Jesus taught us about the power of the prayer of agreement. That passage says that, ‘if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.’ So, there is a power in praying together, a power of agreement and may we come together in this manner. We find that the believers in the early church were in one accord at many times, meaning their hearts were together and they were praying together and they saw the power of God and the mighty works of God done in their midst. Just another reference again from the book of Acts, we see this in Acts chapter 12, it was a really difficult time when Peter was imprisoned and the church didn’t know how Peter’s life would go from there, if he was going to be martyred or anything like that. But one thing they knew to do, that they did all along and that was to pray together. We find that the church prayed in one of the homes and God did something so miraculous, supernaturally an angel was sent to the prison, Peter was brought out of the prison in the night and he was rescued and delivered. God’s deliverance will manifest in amazing ways when we get together as a church family, as a body and we seek Him and ask Him to intervene in our situations. May we come to that place where we are so desirous of praying and seeking the face of God together. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, thank you that even if two of us come together in prayer in the name of Jesus, you are there to answer our prayers. May the church arise with this grace of prayer, that we will be a praying church, a house of prayer for all nations, in Jesus’s name we ask this, Amen.

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