Believing Prayer

…call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. (Joel 1: 14 NIV)

Question: Do we really believe that God hears and answers prayer? Do we want to see the Spirit of God moving in our churches? Then my question is this: What happened to prayer? Prayer meeting in most churches has become obsolete. If there is prayer meeting, much of our praying is praying for Aunt Susie’s sisters’s cousin’s brother who has a hang nail. I am being facetious for sure, but am I really?

When was the last time you experienced the power of God at a prayer meeting? Thankfully there are still churches like the Brooklyn Tabernacle that believe that God still wants to meet with us when we pray.

George Mueller was considered one of the most successful pray-ers in Christian history. Does God only answer Mueller’s prayers? Absolutely not. God did amazing things in the book of Acts when people prayed. Mueller wrote in his journal, “God will show up for prayer meetings, if only the people will.”

The late Norman Grubb said, “Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions. There is adventure, hope and life when they are BELIEVING sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.

Hey, I am not attacking your PASTOR and your prayer meeting. What I am suggesting is that God wants to do so much more, and He longs to meet us when we pray corporately and cry out to Him with believing faith.

Are we willing enough to be a part of another revival in our day? Are we willing to PUSH – Pray Until Something Happens? Think about it.

— Dr. Bill Welte

Keswick, America’s  (2012-12-13). Real Victory for Real Life Volume 2 (Kindle Locations 7409-7428).  . Kindle Edition.

Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 51-53; Acts 20:17-38

Quote of the day: Coals of fire cannot by concealed beneath the most sumptuous apparel. They will betray themselves as smoke and flames. Neither can pet sins belong hidden beneath the most ostentatious profession of faith. They will sooner or later discover themselves and  burn sad holes in the person’s reputation. Sin needs the quenching of the Saviour’s blood, not concealed in our secret closets.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Verses to Memorize: Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true. Troubles and distress have come upon me, but your commands are my delight. Psalm 119:142-143