Acts
4:23—31
For
the Church Prayer is:
Power
Source.
(Acts 4:23
NIV) On their release, Peter and John went
back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to
them.
(Acts
4:24
NIV) When they heard this, they raised their
voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign Lord," they said, "you made
the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.
(Acts 4:25
NIV) You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the
mouth of your servant, our father David: "'Why do the nations rage and the peoples
plot in vain?
Acts
4:26
NIV) The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed One.'
(Acts
4:27
NIV) Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met
together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel
in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
(Acts
4:28
NIV) They did what your power and will had
decided beforehand should happen.
(Acts
4:29
NIV) Now, Lord, consider their threats and
enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.
(Acts
4:30
NIV) Stretch out your hand to heal and perform
miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus."
(Acts
4:31
NIV) After they prayed, the place where they
were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word
of God boldly.
Every
time the church had problems they went to prayer
Today they have problems they run somewhere else
Then they wonder why things don’t work out.
(Psa 143:1 NIV) A psalm
of David. O LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and
righteousness come to my relief.
b.
Provisions
are provided through prayer:
(Mat
6:9 NIV) "This, then, is how you should
pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
(Mat 6:10 NIV) your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it
is in heaven.
(Mat 6:11 NIV) Give us today our daily bread.
The
God gives the best to His children
But He expects us to ask
It is not selfish to ask for our daily bread
God tells us to ask for our daily bread.
Where God Guides... He Provides for your needs.
c.
Prayer
prepares us for service
(Eph
6:18
NIV) And pray in the Spirit on all occasions
with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on
praying for all the saints.
(James 5:16 NIV) Therefore
confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The
prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
(Acts 14:23 NIV) Paul and
Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed
them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
(Psa 143:1 NIV) A psalm
of David. O LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and
righteousness come to my relief.
(Psa 86:6 NIV) Hear my
prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy.
(Psa 54:2 NIV) Hear
my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
