Keep On Praying

Bible Reading:  Acts 12:1-19

Key Verse: Verse 5 – “Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.”

Key Words: prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him

Dr. John Rice says in one of his books that faith is not the only condition of answered prayer.  He advises us to consider several grounds on which God has promised to answer prayer.  

1)  Faith (Matthew 21:22; Mark 9:23, 11:24); 

2)  Asking in Jesus’ name (John 14:13, 14);

3)  When two or more are united for the same objective (Matthew 18:19); 

4)  Keeping God’s commandments and doing the things that are pleasing in His sight     

    (I John 3:22, 23);  

5)  Persistence in prayer (Matthew 7:7, 8; Luke 11:9-10, 18:8).

At any rate, we do know God is anxious to answer our prayers, and God wants to answer them.  We also know that faith the size of a grain of mustard seed can remove mountains.  Sometimes the pattern is much faith and little prayer.  At other times if is little faith and much prayers.

Ours is only to keep on praying!!

 

                                                                                            Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do: 

✞ Prayer is like going hunting without a gun.  If you don’t expect much, you won’t get much.