Wednesday Prayers

Pocket Dictionary of Church History: Over 300 Terms Clearly and Concisely Defined Haystack Prayer Meeting (1806)

Haystack Prayer Meeting (1806). Eight Williams College (western Massachusetts) students led by Samuel J. Mills met regularly for prayer in a grove of trees near the campus. In August of 1806, five of those undergraduates were caught in a thunderstorm while returning from their prayer meeting and took refuge in the lee of a haystack. While waiting for the storm to abate, they felt drawn to prayer, and when they finished, each of them felt called to foreign missions service. Historians of Christian missions date the start of the American foreign missionary movement to that gathering.

Prayer For Unity

Acts 1:14 ESV

14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Unity promotes health.

Unity is rooted in a sustained prayer life.

Prayer reminds of our unified dependence on the Lord.

Take time to pray.

Pray for the Brothers/Sisters

John 17:9 ESV

9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

Jesus exemplified this prayer.

This prayer is necessary for revival

This prayer is practical for our time.

Take time to pray

Power in Corporate Prayer

Matthew 18:19–20 ESV

19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Pray in secret, but also together.

Think of how un-natural and uncomfortable it would be if we only could speak to our dad in private.

Come to agree…this is the outflow of unity—corporate prayer.

Take time to pray.

Walking Away, But In...

Remember that a movement is promoted and empowered by prayer.

Pray for one another.

Pray for His direction/will.