The Power of Prayer has a threefold Potential!

The Power of Prayer has a Threefold Potential!

We know God commands us to pray. We know that it is his will. When we pray, we are being obedient. Every time the church prayed in Acts, they received power and God received glory. When we pray and ask God to make us a praying individual or church that is a powerful thing.  

Visions come in many fascinating ways. God has always given me a vision for a praying church. I have always asked God to fill us to capacity spiritually, even though it is not on me to make that happen. It’s upon us to allow God to work in our lives because we know Christianity is not just a social club, but a life changing moment in our lives when Jesus Christ comes into our heart. Paul explained that simply as “we have become a new creation.” The new creation we have become leads us to relationship with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Prayer is just a natural part of that relationship.

There are lot of definitions I could use but let me put it this way: Why is prayer so important? Because Someone prayed for you!  Someone cared enough to spend energy praying that you would come to know Jesus. You wouldn’t be here if someone hadn’t been praying for you or being an example of Christ in your life.

The vision we have here at Calvary is for a praying church that asks God how can we reach those who need Jesus by making someone’s day better through prayer. Making someone’s day better isn’t just about doing something for them, it’s much more.

The next step in being there for people is to pray for them. Evangelism and prayer go hand in hand.

1.   Prayer will help us fulfill the Great Commission…

 Reaching our community is simply praying for one person at a time. In Matthew 28:19 Jesus tells us, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

We are commanded to make disciples. That seems big, but the “we” is the church. The church’s task: goal, responsibility, and commissioning is to preach the gospel of repentance and forgiveness. We pray in the harvest…

This year was the first year I got cherries on our rainier cherry tree. That tree had sat there for three years and never gave us any fruit. Then one day Larry asks me if I had ever pruned the tree? Of course I hadn’t; so he prunes it and guess what? I get cherries.

When we are looking at the great commission it isn’t about us just witnessing to people, we need to pray for them as well. 

Jesus was speaking to His disciples in Matthew 9:37&38 “Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

The word “ask” that is used in the NIV; in the Kings James the word is “Pray therefore.” We are to pray to the Lord of the harvest for others to come into His kingdom.

The Greek word for prayer is Deomai, and it  Means…

1) to want to
2) to desire, long for
3) to ask, beg
3a) beseech
3b) to pray, make supplications, entreat

If we want to see the others come to Christ then we must pray for the Lord of the harvest to help us. I hope you will be a part of making that happen in our church and community.

You are Loved!