We’ve expressed through all the information about SRC that our vision path is based out of Acts 2:42-47. The early church met in large groups, small groups, and prayer groups.
The Prayer group is of importance to me most right now, because Matt asked me a couple weeks ago, “What do prayer groups look like?” I told him that It was expressed through prayer partners, but I wasn’t sure that I had ever really seen that modeled, and that we would have to break ground ourselves and try to figure it out. There is no doubt though that the new church prayed all the time together.
Tonight I got a glimpse into what God is doing through prayer partners. My friend rtk4him has been a prayer partner with me since last November. Recently at a lunch we had together, I asked how I could pray for him. He asked me to pray for God to expand his territory in business. His boss had some expectations for him to go to the next level, and rtk4him needed God to intervene.
I started praying for him and a couple weeks later he told me that God had answered prayer. A customer that he sells to called him up and ordered as much in one order as they had the entire previous year. When he told me I said “praise the Lord.” But God wasn’t done. As I’ve continued to pray God has continued to expand rtk4him’s territory. Tonight he told me that now that customer has double already what he purchased last year.
I love stories of answered prayer. It encourages me to keep praying. Get a prayer partner, get praying.
--Ben
5 comments:
Who, or where, is the example of a prayer partner in scripture?
There is no specific reference to paryer partners in scripture. Prayer Partners are not an effort to mimic scripture rather are an expression of prayer in our context. The new believers in Acts went to the temple courts to pray, and we know they went together in partnerships (Peter and John at t he Beautiful gate) Since we are the temple, I believe that prayer partnerships are an appropriate expression of regular prayer.
Not trying to necessarily make a case but Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 could easily be adapted to prayer.
I don't think you're ever off base, Don Giovanni. I always appreciate your perspective.
Gal. 6:1Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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