Is Prayer Still Needed Today?

“So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.”

Acts 13:3

“The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.”

Acts 9:11

“On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God…After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

Acts 4:23-24,31

 

Pray, pray pray!

You cannot read the Bible and the New Testament Book of Acts in particular without seeing a connection between a move of God and prayer.

Whether the 1^st Century church was facing great persecution, about to receive significant revelation or sending Apostles and others out in ministry the before, during and after was soaked in prayer.

Why would we expect it to be any different today?

Certainly it is not for lack of need.

Can you honestly look at the church universal, the local church or that part of the church staring back at you from the mirror and say there is no need to pray?

Of course not!

Is there a cost to prayer?

Yes.

Is it a sacrifice?

Yes.

Can we ignore prayer?

Sure.

But we ignore it to our own peril and in disobedience to the commands of God.

This is not about guilting you into prayer.

It is about recognizing the importance, the priority and the place of prayer

in every believer’s life.

We, at His Place, are being called to move into a season of prayer unlike anything before.

If you do not want to miss what God has for us and for you;

if you do not want to miss all that this season holds;

pray, pray, pray…