Prayer Talk 20240319
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To be a Christian
To be a Christian
To be a Christian is to be a person of prayer.
Prayer is to a believer as wet is to water, cold is to ice, and hot is to steam.
Offering prayers to God is a defining quality of a believer, incapable of being divorced from one’s very nature. To believe is to pray.
A church filled with true believers will find the power to turn their worlds upside down through prayer.
Prayer according to Warren Weirsbe’s commentary on the book of Acts, “is both the thermometer and the thermostat of the local church.”
More precisely prayer is foundational to being a believer.
Acts
Acts
At the opening of the Bible, an entire century passed from Adam to the birth of Enos, his grandson, before the people began to pray (Gen 4:26).
The church did not wait that long in the book of Acts.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
From the first to the last chapter of the book of Acts, the church was marked with prayer.
8 And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him.
Rare is the chapter in the book of Acts that doesn’t mention prayer.
You can’t help but notice the response: the disciples turned the world upside down.
6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.
When did the old covenant give way to the new?
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
The law entered with thunder and lightning
The Spirit came with wind and fire.
At Sinai, 3,000 died
At Zion, 3,000 were made alive!
The prelude to the outpouring was prayer!
But prayer did not diminish after Pentecost...
Acts 2:42 (NKJV)
42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
How we begin is how we should end!
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Prayer Needs:
Norman and Judy Hamby - Virus
Barbara Scott
Missionary Tony Ritter
Youth Service Friday Night
Men’s Day?