Make Common What is Uncommon - Prayer

The Prayer of Agreement

Matthew 18:19-20,

AMP: 19 Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever [anything and everything] they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.

The word used here in the original is "sum-pho-na-o," from which comes our term symphony. It literally means "to agree in sound' or "to be in harmony," as may be heard in a symphony orchestra. Harmonic sound of two instruments is more beautiful than the sound of one

When praying with people I personally like to quote scriptures like this verse to them.

Five simple steps of prayer with agreement:

1. There needs to be at least two of us praying.

2. We need to agree.

3. We need to be on earth (I usually got a laugh out of this one).

4. What we are asking God for needs to come under the category of “anything” (which their request always did).

5. God will do it.

1. As this step says there just needs to be two or more people praying.

2. You might be asking yourself what does it mean to agree? “Simple; to agree, means to agree”. Don’t over-spiritualize it. If we decide to get lunch together at a certain time at a certain place, and you say, “Ok, see you there,” we have just agreed. To agree in prayer is no different.

Leviticus 26:8-9

8 five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Deuteronomy 32:30

30 "How could one chase a thousand, 
And two put ten thousand to flight, 
Unless their Rock had sold them, 
And the LORD had given them up?

3. As this step says, we need to be on earth. Not floating off somewhere.

4. John 14:13-14 What Jesus affirms here is repeated many times in His teachings: "Whatsoever you shall ask in My Name, that will I do ... If you shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it"

John 15:16-17 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.17 This I command you, that you love one another.

John 16:24 Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

5. Our bibles are full of events where God has brought about the victory. These victories are still for us today. In what area of your life do you need victory

Psalm 133 NASB

1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is 
For brothers to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, 
Coming down upon the beard, 
Even Aaron's beard, 
Coming down upon the edge of his robes.

3 It is like the dew of Hermon 
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; 
For there the LORD commanded the blessing-life forever more.

Read this verse again. Look at it step by step, and follow it—in all its simplicity. If we do our part, God will do His.

I John 5:14-15 14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

Such certainty is shattering to much of our devotional exercise that we call prayer. We may even think that it is presumptuous to affirm that God gives what we ask for. After all, we reason, fellowship with Christ should mean more to us than the gift for which we seek. And does not finally God know what is best for us?

The Father in heaven knows our situation, and He will respond to our cry from His understanding of our real need.

What unspeakable joy! A confidence multiplied as persons believe together.

During the weighty Welsh outpouring early in this century, a curious visitor asked in one of the meetings if someone would tell him the secret of the movement. Instantly Evan Roberts was on his feet, and lifting his hand to heaven, answered: "There is no secret. Ask, and you shall receive!"

Indeed, that is the explanation. When people are living in the flow of the Spirit, believing prayer becomes the order of the day, and revival its natural expression.

What do you believe God for today? Not what you ask, but what do you expect that He will answer? This may well disclose our faith -- and our likeness to Christ. Yet it may also urge us to rise to a higher life in the fullness of His Spirit.

Think of the potential, the unlimited vistas of prayer open to us! "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them" (Mt. 18:19-20).