Been doing a "call to prayer" with my growth group recently – three times a day, every day. We took turns giving prayer requests and it was so wonderful to know that we were all agreeing in prayer, speaking to the same loving Father, even though we were scattered in various places around Sydney. It petered out recently but the daily, hourly, minute by minute call to prayer is just as urgent and vital.
Prayer is the most powerful thing ever.
Your prayers can bless a brother you've never met, save a soul far away, change a nation without stepping outside your bedroom. With your knees on the ground. Driving in the car. Standing at the photocopier. Anywhere.
Right now this nation needs prayer. We need to be warriors in prayer, persevering against all the odds. Faith believes in the victory that is already ours, even though we can't see it. It's a battle against principalities and powers, not flesh and blood.
There's been so many things on my mind lately. I've been distracted heaps, but I've also been praying more than ever. I'm so thankful for four weeks of driving one hour each way, where I've been able to pour out my heart to God, pray for wisdom and peace, pray for prophetic words, pray for brothers and sisters in Christ, pray for lost souls, pray for healing, pray for missionaries and the persecuted Church, pray for the future of this nation and future generations of children, pray against demonic attacks, pray in the Spirit, how I love to pray in the Spirit. Now that I'm on break for a week, I pray that my devotion to speaking to my Lord and God doesn't wane. I long to hear His voice, to have a living relationship that is rich and fulfilling and wonderful.
He answers prayer. That's the game changer. He answers prayer.
"Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17
"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him." 1 John 5:14-15
"...praying always with prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints..." Ephesians 6:18
"Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." Mark 11:24
And then this promise, the very words of God, just blows everything out of the water: "It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear." Isaiah 65:24
This relationship with our Heavenly Father is so beautiful and airtight - and all because of the Lord Jesus. Keep praying and believing, dear brothers and sisters! We shall see Him soon.
