Prayer
21.PrayersbytheChurch
Acts12:5"Peterthereforewaskeptinprison:but prayerwasmadewithoutceasingofthechurchunto Godforhim."
Meaning:ThestoryofActs12isPeterinprisonaboutto bemurderedbyKingHerod.Manyfromthechurchof JerusalemgatheredatthehouseofMary,JohnMark's mother,toprayforhisrelease.Becauseofthechurch praying,GodsentanangeltotheprisontoescortPeterout ofjail.Peterwenttowheretheywereprayingand"declared untothemhowtheLordhadbroughthimoutofprison" (Acts12:17).
Application:Greatthingshappenwhenthechurch prays.PriortoPentecostand3,000peoplebeing saved,therewasachurchprayinginanupperroom (Acts1:14).Priortoboldpreaching,personalsoul winning,andsacrificialgiving,therewasachurch prayermeeting(Acts4:31-37).Priortothe ordinationofthefirstdeacons,thechurchprayed (Acts6:6,7).Whenthefirstmissionariesweresent out,thechurchprayed(Acts13:1-3).We underestimatethepowerofjointprayerthroughthe membersofalocalchurch.
OtherVersesforStudy:Matthew18:20;Luke11:1-13; Acts12:1-19;IThessalonians5:25;IIThessalonians3:1;James5:14
1.Whataretwothingsthathappenedwhenthechurchprayed?
2.ThechurchatJerusalemprayedwithout_____________forPeter.
3.Canyourememberwhenyoulastprayedwithsomeoneatchurch andwhoprayedwithyou?_________________________________