Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from a worship group singingFind Us Faithful ... poignantly singing of how others who come behind us will find us faithfully praying for our God to intervene on our behalf.
Williams College - Haystack Monument
==============Highlight Verse[s]: 2Corinthians 1:11 [NKJV] ... 11 … you [fellow Christians] also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.
… Paul was so deeply grateful for other Christians gathering together to pray for His work.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 2Corinthians 1:8-11 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Paul, shows us the value of Christians coming together to pray to our Heavenly Father, Who must smile deeply when He sees/hears His kids praying to Him.
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Reference Passage : … 2Chronicles 7:14 [NKJV] ... 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
… Jesus’ promise to His disciples to be with us until He comes again for us. … God’s promise to heal our land when we, as believers, gather together to humbly pray for God’s healing and deliverance.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 6:7-13 [NKJV] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus instructs His followers how to pray.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 10:24-25 [NKJV] … 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
… God encourages us to come TOGETHER to seek and worship Him.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Poh Fang Chia, tells of an almost “accidental” gathering of Christians which led to a revival of sorts, illustrating how Christians, gather together in humble prayer can have great power before God. … The ODB author wrote: Samuel Mills and four of his friends often gathered together to pray for God to send more people to share the good news of Jesus. One day in 1806, after returning from their prayer meeting, they got caught in a thunderstorm and took refuge in a haystack. Their weekly prayer gathering then became known as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, which resulted in a global mission movement. Today the Haystack Prayer Monument stands at Williams College in the US as a reminder of what God can do through prayer. [see photo]
We don’t pray enough, do we, … especially when we see the result of even just a few faithful Christians coming together, as in the ODB story, to humbly pray for God’s intervening grace. I, for one, am convicted today to do more to fulfill the promises and commitment from our God to intervene on our behalf, when - and if - we’re willing as Christians to gather together, in His Name and for His glory, to humbly pray for our Lord to heal our land and to redeem the lost for His Kingdom.
That’s why Jesus tried to instruct His disciples to pray as He instructed [see Matthew 6]; … and it’s why God promised His healing grace when His people would gather together in humble prayer [see the remaining reference passages above].
So, do you feel, as I do, that we, … as Christ’s body on earth, … need to come together, and desperately and humbly pray for God’s grace to heal our land?
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for Your promises of grace when we come together as Christians to pray to You.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to humbly prayer for You to heal our land. … Amen
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