Series: Pray Like Jesus 1/12/14
(Luke 22:39-46)
I recently read an article online that said, “It is rare to hear of a
church holding a prayer meeting any longer, and even rarer to hear of a
church with a regular monthly or weekly
prayer meeting...corporate prayer...is...in danger of extinction.... The
corporate body of Christ in the Western World... seems to be suffering
from prayerlessness” (Scott Roberts, What Keeps Us From Corporate
Prayer).
Jesus tells us that when the church gathers together
in prayer, it has the power to move heaven and impact earth in a manner
beyond what is possible when we pray alone.
So if we want to
see God move mightily again, if we want to see things change in our
lives, our homes, our church, our community and our nation, we need to
return to the practice of corporate prayer that was central in the
ministry of Jesus and the early church.