Prayer With One Voice

Gathering Together- Strengthened the early church believers to face a very challenging enviroment everyday. gathering together and praying together with one voice strengthened them as individuals to face their daily challenges.

They had needs but they were met. They had a mission but they did it together. they bad aculture of grace and power. ++

Agree To Ask God For....

Acts 4:24,29-31 (NKJV) 24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

...29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Prayer- Beg, plead, ask, implore

Serious & Desperate- God We Need Your Help

What If They Didnt Pray?

What If You Dont Pray?? What are the consequences for a person who doesnt pray?

Billy Graham- A prayerless christian is a powerless christian

Johnathan Edwards- He that lives a prayerless life, lives without god in the world

Bill Hybels- the most common cause of unanswered prayer is praylessness

― E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer “What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.”

No Healing In The Land- Cure, heal and Make Whole

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Anxious Because You Arent Praying- Philippians 4:6–7 (NIV) 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Unguarded and Tormoil in the mind

James - Faith That Works- Faith Through Prayer

James 5:13–18 (NKJV) 13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

Passion Version- James 5:13-18 TPT 13“Are there any believers in your fellowship suffering great hardship and distress? Encourage them to pray! Are there happy, cheerful ones among you? Encourage them to sing out their praises! 14 Are there any sick among you? Then ask the elders of the church to come and pray over the sick and anoint them with oil in the name of our Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will heal the sick and the Lord will raise them up, and if they have committed sins they will be forgiven. 14Confess and acknowledge how you have offended one another and then pray for one another to be instantly healed, for tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer! Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there would be no rain for three and a half years! Then he prayed again and the skies opened up over the land so that the rain came again and produced the harvest.”

Suffering, Hardship, Distress- Prayer brings relief from suffering. No prayer no relief. Suffering, Hardship and distress are the symtoms of the fallen world we live in.

Sickness- Save-Sozo Physical- Mental- churches that dont have praying leaders are churches where sick people arent healed

Pray For One Another- Churches should be places we pray for each other.

Offence- Will be inside church- Offence makes a church diseased- the body is sick instead of healthy.

Confession Prayer Instant Healing - Prayer transforms and cleansess instantly

Illustration- Eketahuna- Offended factions in the leadership- threw the bible across the room- God wasnt happy- they confessed their offences - prayed together --changed

A City On A Hill Cannot Be Hidden - Mt.5:14

““You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.”