Msg #24025 Let Us Pray
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
Our Evangelist opened his 21st annual revival meeting teaching on prayer. “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving” (Col.4:2). One cannot continue what they’ve not started, and we are exhorted “That, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; … I will therefore that men pray every where” (1Tim.2:1,8). Jesus was clear, “that men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luk.18:1). It takes a prayer of faith, “without faith it is impossible to please him” (Heb.11:6). “The woman of Canaan came out of the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, and cried unto him, (and after much consternation) Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith” (Matt.15:22,28). Previously, when he came into his own country “he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief”(13:58). How’s my faith? In prayer, do I believe? How long do I pray? “In those days, Jesus went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God” (Luk.6:12). Again and again we are exhorted “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” (Php.4:6), “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us” (1Joh.5:14). A key to revival, personal, church, or country, hinges on prayer. My longstanding favorite plea for prayer is “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not” (Jer.33:3), and it has a NT parallel, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (Eph.3:20). Let’s pray.
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