1. Give the prayer burden priority over all else. If at all possible, put aside what you are doing and give yourself entirely to prayer for this need.
(Google image, Men in prayer)
Often time is of the utmost importance; do not delay. If you cannot immediately set yourself apart for this prayer burden, keep praying for it every spare moment until you are free to cease all else and go to prayer.
2. Be prepared to pray for hours. This is not always necessary, but be so diligent in prayer that you intercede as long as it takes to receive the assurance of God's answer.
In the 1930s a dear friend of mine, a barber in Oklahoma, was a zealous witness for the Lord. One afternoon he felt strongly impressed to pray for the salvation of the deputy sheriff of his county. He closed his barbershop in the middle of the afternoon, pulled down the blinds so people could not see inside, and went to an inner room to pray.
All the rest of the afternoon, through the supper hour, and into the night George Sherrick prayed on. At about two o'clock in the morning someone pounded on the door. No one knew George was in his shop at that hour of the night.
When he went to the door, there stood the sheriff for whom he had been praying, under deep conviction of the Holy Spirit. That night George Sherrick let him to the Lord.
3. Pray until God lifts the burden or gives you assurance He has heard. In about 1949 a group of retired missionaries from China, with a few faithful praying friends, met for their regular missionary prayer meeting in Adelaide, South Australia.
A great prayer burden and sense of urgency came on them as they gathered together. All felt especially burdened for Hayden Melsap, then assigned to the China Inland Mission. They unanimously decided to drop all preliminaries and go "straight to prayer." They prayed until they all felt a sense of peace and relief.
A few years later, when Hayden Melsap was on deputation in Australia, the missionaries asked him if he recalled any unusual occasion at that time. To their amazement, they found that on that day and hour Hayden and at least two other missionaries were backed against a wall in a courtyard in China, with communist guns leveled at them.
Just as the officer was about to issue the command to fire, the door of the courtyard opened and a higher official entered. Shocked to see what was about to happen, he shouted, "Stop!" He then stepped up, put his arm around Melsap, and led him and the others to safety. I heard this testimony from Hayden Melsap himself and also have it in writing from an Australian friend.
4. God may lead you to enlist the prayer of several others. Many a miracle has been brought to pass by the Holy Spirit in answer to a chain of prayer or the prayers of a specially convened group. Many local churches have arrange S.O.S. prayer chains.
When an emergency prayer request comes in, five or six people are immediately called. Each, in turn, calls the next person on his list. In a matter of minutes, many are at prayer. We have such an arrangement among our One Mission Society headquarters staff.
During the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in 1960, missionaries Matt and Lora Higgens were returning one night to Nairobi through the heart of Mau Mau territory, where Kenyans and missionaries alike had been killed and dismembered.
Seventeen miles outside of Nairobi their Land Rover stopped. Higgens tried to repair the car in the dark, but could not restart it. They spent the night in the car, but claimed Psalm 4:8: "I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." In the morning they were able to repair the car.
A few weeks later the Higgenses, return to America on furlough. They reported that the night before they left Nairobi, a local pastor had visited them. He told how a member of the Mau Mau had confessed that he and three others had crept up to the car to kill the Higgenses, but when they saw sixteen men surrounding the car, the Mau Mau had left in fear. "Sixteen men?" Higgens responded. "I don't know what you mean!'
While they were on furlough a friend, Clay Brent, asked the Higgenses if they had been in any danger recently. Higgens asked, "Why?" then Clay said that on March 23, God had placed a heavy prayer burden on his heart. He called the men of the church, and sixteen of them met together and prayed until the burden lifted. Did God send sixteen angels to represent those men and enforce their prayers?
Heaven will reveal may wonderful accounts of how God has used special prayer burdens to advance His cause and protect His people.
(Chapter 11, pp. 84-86, italics added for emphasis)
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Let's pray-
"Father, I thank you for all the pioneers who blazed the way, all the veterans cheering me on. I will never quit! I lay aside every weight and every sin that would hinder me. I fix my eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of my faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. I am running to win. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Amen"
Germine Copeland
Scripture Reading
Hebrews 12:1 –2 (Message and Living)
1 Corinthians 9:24-25 (Message)
Philippians 3:13-14
Today's Bible verses-
Psalm 92:1-2 (NKJV) “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night.”
Matt. 21:22 (NKJV) "And all things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
John 6:29 (NKJV) "Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
Psalm 99:9 "Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy."
Psalm 99:9 "Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy."
Today's quotes-
~ Monica La Rose- "On our own, it's easy to feel insecure and fragile, pummeled by our fears and insecurities. But as we grow in our true identity in Christ (Eph. 4:22-24), we can experience deep peace with God and each other (v. 3), nourished and sustained by Christ's power and beauty (vv. 15-16)." [Our Daily Bread, 5/1/20]
Frances Pasch-
Chaos
Nations in a state of chaos
Morals going down the drain.
Voices trying to delude us
Saying “Jesus does not reign.”
It’s sad to see the faces
Of people on the street
So strained and so dejected
Signs of despair and defeat.
That’s why we must share the gospel
With a world that’s broken by sin
To tell them Jesus loves them
That He wants to dwell within.
To tell them He’s Our Savior,
He reigns on heaven’s throne.
Faith in Him is salvation…
In Him and Him alone.
©Frances Gregory Pasch
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~ Our knowing that the Lord is always with us, is a great stabilizing factor. When we go through troubling times, and we're shaken a bit, we can be assured that He will help us to not be upset or slip and fall from His Arms.
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