Power of Prayers

Dear Weekly Readers!

I hope and trust that you all had a Blessed Christmas with your family, loved ones, and congregations.   It is my prayer that the Love of the Lord Jesus is shining brightly in each heart today and would continue to shine throughout the New Year.

This is such a wonderful time of year.  However, it can be so sad and lonely for so many people.  When there are events that take place such as what happened just two days before Christmas in our town.  A house started on fire, and a small child died, along with a 27 year old uncle who went to try to rescue the child.  Also, there are two other people still in comas from being in the fire. 

 

Such tragic events really make us sad, especially when they occur during such a happy time of year.   Even when such things happen at other times of the year, people can feel so sad for a long time after, and the joyous events are especially hard when remembering our loved ones who have passed.

So, if you have some pain and sadness to endure at this time, or if you are just anxious about the year ahead, the best thing I can think of in these situations is prayer.

The following is part of a letter about prayer that I received from one of our head pastors in Kenya, Africa!

Please be blessed by the writing below. 

May God Bless your week!   John R.

POWER OF PRAYERS

Praise God! My brethren in Christ, A man is more powerful when he/she is in prayer than when behind powerful guns ever developed. A nation too is more powerful when it unites in earnest prayer to God than when its resources are channeled into defensive weapons. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our redeemer and Savior, gave more encouragement to prayer. The followers of Christ were both encouraged to pray and were also taught how to pray.  They saw constantly the example he set in praying and noted that: - 

                                       

1. Jesus considered prayer more important than Food …Mark 1:35

2. Jesus considered prayer more important than the assembling of great throngs…. Luke 5:15-16

3. Jesus considered the precious hours of fellowship with His Heavenly Father meant much more than sleep…Luke 6:12

4. Jesus preyed at funerals and the dead were raised and prayed over the five loaves and two fishes, and a multitude was fed.

Brothers and sisters please don’t look down upon yourself or ask excuse questions, we are supposed to communicate with our creator with the only means of telephone called PRAYER.

When I read the bible I get great people successes came out through prayers.

A}. Noah obedience and prayerful earned him an ARK of deliverance.

B}. Moses prayed and God delivered the Israelites from Egyptian bondage.

C}. Gideon prayed and a host of formidable enemy fled in fear

D}. Daniel prayed and the mouths of Lions were closed

E}. Elijah prayed and the fire of God consumed the sacrifice and licked up the water around the alter.

F}. David prayed and he defeated Goliath.

G}. The disciples and apostles prayed and the churches were born in Asia Minor and Europe, etc.

By this I mean all our problems can be answered through contact with our Almighty God. God does answer prayer….. (edited for length)

Please allow me to end in a challenging that: - SATAN TREMBLES WHEN HE SEES THE WEAKEST SAINT UPON HIS KNEES. So pray pray and I say pray Christian, PRAY.

SENIOR PASTOR TIMOTHY MUNDIAH