Prayer is, or should be, central to every lifegroup. Prayer is how we can literally bring heaven to earth. That is what Jesus taught so shouldn’t we believe it and act on it?!
I’m certain each of you is praying for your lifegroup members. In this close-knit fellowship you have huge opportunity to pursue breakthrough in all areas of life because of the humility, transparency and vulnerability that can be fostered in a small group.
Prayer is a powerful thing.
Prayer has already divided seas and rolled up flowing rivers, it has made flinty rocks gush into fountains, it has quenched flames of fire, it has muzzled lions, disarmed vipers and poisons, it has marshaled the stars against the wicked, it has stopped the course of the moon and arrested the sun in its race, it has burst open iron gates and recalled souls from eternity, it has conquered the strongest devils and commanded legions of angels down from heaven. Prayer has bridled and chained the raging passions of men and destroyed vast armies of proud, daring, blustering atheists. Prayer has brought one man from the bottom of the sea and carried another in a chariot of fire to heaven.
How do you make sure your prayers are effective?
Follow this guide, as taught by Jesus;
“Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” (Matthew 18:18-20 NASB)
The power of the church of Jesus Christ is stated right here. “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.”
Prayer, therefore, is God the Son praying to God the Father in the power of God the Spirit, and the prayer room is the believer’s heart.
Out of Jesus alone flows this marvellous power to bind and to loose, and this tremendous unity by which the mind of the Spirit becomes known and God moves through Christian lives to alter the course and destiny of the world around us.
Be confident when you pray together that Jesus, the Son of God, is present amongst you, partnering with you to pray in tune with the thoughts of God the Father to see the goodness of heaven be manifest in your circumstances. Believe it!