Daily Bread_May 7, 2013

Title: It's Time for God's People to Pray

Text:

James 5:16-17 (HCSB)
¹⁶ Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
John 9:31 (HCSB)
³¹ We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

Observation:

Prayer is the most powerful resource that the believer has to enable us to fulfill the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us.

There is nothing that is beyond the reach of prayer. There is no need that we have in our life that our Lord cannot meet; there is no problem that we face that our Lord cannot solve.

Therefore, let's flood the throne room of God with the prayers of God's believing and faithful people. Don't just pray for yourself; pray for others also.

Ephesians 6:18 (HCSB)
¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.

Prayer:

Father God, we stretch our hands to thee; we cry out to you with our whole heart. Lord, look down from your throne room in heaven, and pour out your favor on your people. In Jesus name, Amen.

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Acts 6:4 (KJV)
⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

 

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