Rhapsody of Realities 23 June 2023: The Power of Prayer
SCRIPTURE: James 5:16 – Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
There’s no hopeless situation that we can’t change through prayer. Read our theme scripture in the Amplified Classic; it says, “..The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available (dynamic in its working).” Our prayers are not empty.
“Think about Paul and Silas for a moment. They were captured, beaten, and thrown into a dungeon with their feet clamped in stocks. But the Bible records in Acts 16:25:26 that: ..at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bands were loosed.”
How remarkable this is! Two men prayed and sang praises to God, and there was an earthquake! How loud could they have been singing for their voices to have caused an earthquake and broken off all the prisoners’ chains? It lets you know that It certainly wasn’t the volume of their singing; t was the power of their prayer!
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There’s nothing you can’t change through prayer. Therefore, make prayer a major feature In your lfe and a major part of your daily routine. It will strengthen you and help you maintain focus even in the face of the toughest temptations and persecutions.
CONFESSION: Dear Father, thank you for the privilege to pray and side with you to enforce your will in the earth and in the lives of men. Even now, I declare peace, progress and prosperity for the nations of the world, in
Ephesians 6:18 AMPC
18 Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God’s consecrated people).
Romans 8:26-27
So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.
27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.
Luke 18:1
Also [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Acts 10: 24-48 & Ezra 7-8
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Luke 3:12-22 & Deuteronomy 21
Thank you for studying today’s Rhapsody of Realities – The Power of Prayer – written by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome.
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