Earnestly!

Acts 12: 5

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

 

I love those words….. “but the church was earnestly praying…”

Peter was in prison one minute, and then out the next.

Why was that? Because the church was praying like they meant it!

I have a feeling they were not praying silently in some circle.

 

When the church prays earnestly, that’s what happens.

People get healed—jail cells become unlocked—the wayward child returns home—the broken marriage becomes mended.

Jailers even get saved!!

 

Do you really expect God to answer your prayer?

Somehow I have the feeling, that if we knew a believer in Christ who was falsely imprisoned today—we’d probably start a prison ministry, instead of praying.

What God wants us to do, is pray in faith believing.

 

How would our prayer life be different, if we focused on God, instead of the problem?

I’d bet we’d see more people delivered from sin and disease than we do.

 

We really have to pray with our eyes on God, and not the difficulty.

As our church enters this early morning prayer & fast discipline today, maybe we should keep this idea in mind?

 

The only way to find God is in prayer—and the only way to a miracle, is through earnest, and faith-filled prayer….offered to a God just waiting to bring an answer…..