Prayer Grasps Eternity

The Bible tells us, “Beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.” (Jude 20) Churches should be the place of the power of the Holy Spirit because of the effectual fervent prayers of its people. However, instead of being rich in prayer, we are often in poverty.

Too many churches have many organizers but few agonizers, many players but few prayers, many singers but few clingers, many fears but few tears, many wranglers but few wrestlers, much fashion but little passion, lots of interferers but few intercessors, many writers but few fighters.

Prayer meeting has become a disenchanted Cinderella with attendance waning. She is backward, having a name that she once lived but having become content and lazy. Too many modern Christians are afraid to pray out loud. But, we are not praying to impress people but to plead with God.

Real prayer will have a prerequisite of vision and passion in order to have power. We need to have a vision of God and a passion for people. Where there is no vision the people perish. Where there is no prayer the church will perish.

We need to come to prayer meeting to worship not to be entertained. If we come as critics we will miss everything God plans to do. Come to pray for your pastors, your fellow believers, your church, your missionaries and yourself. Come to intercede for the sick, the sorrowing and the suffering. Make prayer meeting the most important church service of the week. Make prayer a primary function in your family and personal life. Remember: Prayer grasps eternity when we pray in the power of the Spirit.