04 Apr First Wednesday | “Prayer Moves the Hand of God”
Key Verse: Acts 13
It is not our job to tell the Holy Spirit what we want Him to do and expect Him to bless it. We should be partnering with what the Holy Spirit wants to do and ask Him to bless that. What we want is flawed. The Holy Spirit has been actively and powerfully moving in people’s lives, converting people to Jesus for over 2000 years!
The WORSHIP and PRAYER of the Church gave birth to the Spirit’s SPEAKING…and then SETTING APART and SENDING members of the church into the mission of Jesus.
If we are not seeking, praying, and fasting, we won’t hear God. The book of Acts is a pattern of how God works through the Holy Spirit.
Patterns of the Church
Apostles teaching – The New Testament
Fellowship – united together in commonality
Breaking of Bread – small groups/gathering in homes
Prayer
They loved one another, cared for one another and opened their lives up to others in the Church. There is power in community. Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV– ‘And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.’
As a result of this, many got saved!
Prayer is the key. A church that seeks the heart of God, prays.
Acts 6:4 ESV, Acts 6:45-35 ESV
We need to pray to see God move in our generation.
Haystack Revival of 1806 and The Business Man’ Revival of 1857
4 KEYS TO POWERFUL PRAYER
1. WE ENTER WITH CONFIDENCE BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.
2. WE COME IN WORSHIP AND PRAISE.
Psalm 100:4 ESV, Psalm 34:3 ESV
Lift Him up and let Him know that you know who He is.
3. WE REMIND GOD OF WHAT HE SAID.
Isaiah 62:6-7 ESV, 1 Peter 3:9 ESV
A woman in our church prayed 20 years for her husband and the day before he died he accepted Christ!
4. WE HAVE TO CRY OUT!
Say it like you mean it. Say it in a loud voice. Take hold of heaven.
Romans 15:30 ESV, Romans 8:34 ESV
Ask Him to move in our church!
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