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This article was posted on Sunday, July 6, 2008
The old puritan once proclaimed “Prayer is a cannon set at the gates of heaven to burst open its gates”. Here are several premises (make known beforehand) regarding prayer-power.
1.The power of prayer is really the power of God
Some mistakenly credit spiritual gains and victories only to prayer. True, prayer releases the power to bring these results but God is the source of that power. Prayer is mighty because God committed Himself to answer it.
2. The power of prayer is all-inclusive
Prayer is all-inclusive. There is no circumstance or geographic location where prayer-power is restricted. Prayer can penetrate places where no other power can reach. There is no situation or problem too great for the power of prayer. It lead to all blessings, taps all of God’s power, and bring the prayer warrior into the very presence of God Himself. Prayer has the possibility to affect every thing which affects us. Wisdom, knowledge, holiness and heaven are at the command of prayer. E.M. Bounds “Prayer is God’s triumph of spiritual engineering, employing all His gifts and providing unlimited access to all the resources of His being. Prayer is a summit-meeting in the very throne room of the universe. There is no higher level.” To be sure, all heaven and its blessing lay before the praying Christian.
3. The power of Prayer is largely untapped by the church today.
If we would return to apostolic practice—waiting upon the Lord for apostolic power—we could then go forth to apostolic possibilities. Indeed, the untapped power of God is only found in waiting before God in prayer.
4. The power of prayer has numerous avenues of release.
Power for sharing God’s word
b.) Power for lasting revival- “there have been revival without much preaching; but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.
Power to move the hand of God.———Jeremiah 33:3 “call unto me and I will answer” “ direct power of prayer is, in a sense, omnipotent. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. It secures for the believer the resources of divinity…. the oratory that gives power to the pulpit. It is the hand that strikes down Satan and breaks the fetters of sin. It turns the scales of fate more than the edge of the sword, the craft of the statesman, or the weight of scepters. It has arrested the wings of time, turned away the very scythe (sickle) of death and discharged heaven’s frowning and darkest cloud in a shower of blessings
Power to solve insurmountable problem- he who waits upon God moves on a quiet confidence and needs neither the blare of trumpets nor the press-agent methods to announce his success, but in Godly fear, leaves until the day of Christ’s return the record of achievement.
Power to touch others-…… this power is so rich and so mobile that all we have to do when we pray is point to the persons or things to which we desire to have His power applied , and He, the lord of this power, will direct the necessary power to the desired place at once.
Power to bring salvation to others….Samuel Brengle once related “ Some of my I have not yet seen answered , but others that I have poured forth with tears and strong desire for His glory and the salvation and sanctification of men fifty years ago are being answered before my eyes.
g.) Power to bring the Holy Spirit into all our efforts …. J. Wilbur Chapman reminds us of this in his description of Jonathan Edwards. He said” I have been in that old church in New England where Jonathan Edwards preached his great sermon, ‘Sinners in the Hands of God’. He had a little manuscript that he held up so close to his face that they could not see his countenance. But as he went on and on, the people in the crowded church were tremendously moved. One man jumped to his feet and cried for mercy. Other men caught hold of the backs of the pews lest they should slip in perdition. I have seen the old pillars around who threw their arms, when they thought the day of judgement had dawned upon them. The power of that sermon is still felt in the United States today.”
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