Will you be found praying or sleeping
We’ve been discussing prayer in our Wednesday Prayer Meeting for several weeks and have placed some emphasis on praying specifically. When we pray about specific needs we gain an opportunity to grow in faith. Our faith will increase for continued specific praying and more faith filled service to God as a result of seeing our specific requests answered in specific ways.
One of the ways we can pray specifically is for the needs of those who minister to us through leadership in the church and teaching the Word and for Missionaries who’ve made some specific needs know to us.
John Koster in the article Striving in Prayer, at the Association of Baptist for World Evangelism (ABWE) web site, illustrates this nicely.
When Christians pray specifically, consistently and fervently for God’s servants, they receive a double blessing: not only do they receive answers to prayer, they also gain confidence from knowing that others are standing with them. The apostle Paul wanted to be a part of a team. He desired the sense of support that comes when a Christian worker is assured that other people are striving with him in his ministry through prayer.
I can tell you that it is a great blessing to know others are standing with you in prayer over specific matters. You are part of a team, the church, as followers of Christ. You should be interceding for one another. You can be a real blessing to those who serve with you in the church by asking for specific requests and then taking those faithfully to the Lord. And what a blessing you and those you serve with will receive when you have the answer to your praying.
I hope you’ll join with me in this matter of praying specifically for one another.
Kevin