Praying Together
MMM 29/4/24
Felt a breakthrough in all the oppression last night. Slept well. So thankful that I can worship God today at our Monday Morning Meeting with clarity of mind and soul. Sometimes, during worship, the Holy Spirit leads us into intercession and prayer, like today.
V: 1 Timothy 6:6
Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment.
Looked it up and prayed with verses 7 and 8:
“For I have brought nothing into the world and I will take nothing out of it.
I will be content with the food and clothing you have provided me.”
Thank you, Lord. I am content with what you have done for and given to me. I entrust my loved ones and everything else to You as I trust in you with all of my heart. ā¤ļø
I felt a flow of healing as the worship music played over and over with these great names of God:
Yahweh
Rapha
Elohim
Shaddai
Jireh
Adonia
Thank you, Lord. For healing my mind and soul.
Restoring my ability and capacity to worship you.
Sharon
Saw in Wuhan Mountain is red and with a cross. We are protected. Forest and trees with many crosses.
The music plays:
“Yours is the kingdom, yours is the power, yours is the glory, forever amen.”
Sara
Then I saw The Rapture
From one tall tree
To many towers/poles
Then rockets
So many, all shooting to the sky
And V said:
The Rapture
Then nuclear war starts.
Sara:
Lord, leave none of us behind. Not any of our loved ones. Everyone in our household
Our children and grandchildren. Let everyone in our household believe and worship you and you only.
Then song ends with this chorus over and over:
“Let Jesus come.”
Florence
I also receive the word “contentment” in Psalms 131:
“My heart is not proud, Lord,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
But I have calmed and quieted myself,
I am like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child I am content.
Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.”
And then Psalms 118:14-21:
14 The Lord is my strength and my defense;
he has become my salvation.
15 Shouts of joy and victory
resound in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!
16 The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”
17 I will not die but live,
and will proclaim what the Lord has done.
18 The Lord has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open for me the gates of the righteous;
I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord
through which the righteous may enter.
21 I will give you thanks, for you answered me;
you have become my salvation
Thank you Lord for hearing our prayers.
Update: July 2024
Upon our return from China in May, V tells us it is time to get everyone to start praying regularly together. I did not expect that it would take us more than a month to begin! For suddenly, we are swamped with challenges, distractions and disruptions.
I started to read a book about George Muller (1805 – 1898), who was known to have 50,000 prayers answered, big and small, praying every day faithfully, for over 50 years in his 93 years of life! This is what he has to say about prayer:
“There is not a more blessed and powerful weapon for the children of God, than that they should give themselves to prayer. For thus they can have the power of God on their side—the almighty power of God. And by making use of this power, through the instruments of prayer in all things we need, we can have the infinite wisdom of God brought to work for us, and have God Himself at our side, as children of God. Therefore we should seek to make a far better use than ever we have done of prayer. And you, my beloved Christian friends, who are in the habit of meeting often at the noonday prayer meeting, expect great things at the hands of God; look out for wondrous blessings, and you will find how ready He is to give those things which we ask for.”
https://www.georgemuller.org/devotional/category/prayer
It Has to be Intentional
I realise what V is trying to show me – that getting to pray together has to be intentional or we will never be able to do it. While I do not think we would be able to pray anywhere near to George Muller’s fervency, we can start with baby steps.
So, we got our act together. Using Stormie Omartian’s book “The Power of a Praying Life”, we start to pray together every Monday from July 8 after the morning worship and a simple lunch, usually finishing between 4 to 5 pm. The China teams also started and fared even better – some praying together twice or more in a week.
And as George Muller said, which we know but modern fast-paced life is annoyingly demanding and disruptive, God moved powerfully during these sessions and answered many prayers.
I only pray and wish that more of our members will understand the necessity and importance of praying together and would commit themselves to it. And for myself, I desire a greater passion and fervency for prayer, far more than ever before.
So help me God I pray.
Amen.
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