It is clear from scriptures that the first Church, in the days of the apostles, stood on two pillars; prayer and the word. In Acts 6: 4 they said, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.” When you take away these two, the Church is bound to grow cold, dry and empty. The warmth of the Church is sustained mainly by prayer and the Word. Remember Jesus said, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first... ” (Matthew 12:43-45). If we must keep the evil beast away therefore, we must fight dryness and emptiness, we must keep the fire burning with prayer and the word.
The apostles said, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer….” Why? In Matthew 26:41 Jesus had earlier told them, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation…” Temptations abound but it takes watching and praying to overcome. Satan's intention is to make you fall into temptation, it is your prayer exercise that guarantees your standing in the face of such temptations. You cannot be praying and falling at the same time. If you find yourself falling all the time, it means you are not praying. Those who pray don't fall.
Also, in Luke 22:32 Jesus looked at Peter and said, “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not…” Faith failure is the root of all failure. But when we pray, faith is sustained and strengthened; failure gives way to victory. Jesus also meant to say, “The reason I have not failed is because I am praying.”
WILL YOU START PRAYING INSTEAD OF MUMURING AND COMPLAING
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