Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The Primacy of Prayer

Midweek Prayer Service 7:00 pm.

     The church is Acts was a praying church !

Acts 1:14 – “These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer …”
Acts 1:24 – “And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, 
     show which one of these two You have chosen.”
Acts 2:42 – “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to
     fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”
Acts 3:1 – “Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour
     of prayer.”
Acts 4:31 – “And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was
     shaken …”
Acts 6:4 – “But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Acts 6:6 – “And these they brought before the apostles; and after praying, they laid their
     hands on them.”
Acts 8:15 – “who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 8:22 – “Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if
     possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.”
Acts 8:24 – “But Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that
     nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”
Acts 9:11 – “And the Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and
     inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,”
Acts 9:40 – “But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the  
     body, he said, “ Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she
     sat up.”
Acts 10:2 – “a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many
     alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.”
Acts 10:4 – “And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?”
     And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.”
Acts 10:9 – “On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter
     went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.”
Acts 10:30 – “Cornelius said, “ Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during
     the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining garments,”
Acts 10:31 – “and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have
     been remembered before God.”
Acts 11:5 – “I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object
     coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right
     down to me,”
Acts 12:5 – “So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently
     by the church to God.”
Acts 12:12 – “And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John
     who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.”
Acts 13:3 – “Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they
     sent them away.”
Acts 14:23 – “When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with
     fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.”
Acts 16:13 – “And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we
     were supposing that there would be a place of prayer;”
Acts 16:16 – “It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having
     a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.”
Acts 16:25 – “But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise
     to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;”
Acts 20:36 – “When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.”
Acts 21:5 – “When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they
     all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down
     on the beach and praying …”
Acts 22:17 – ““It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple,
     that I fell into a trance,”
Acts 28:8 – “And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with
     recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he
     laid his hands on him.”

 

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