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| bradfreeman wrote: | I'm curious about our thought process when we start a prayer-chain or ask for large groups of people to pray about a need.
1. Do we hope that, among the crowd, we can find at least 2 or 3 to agree? |
The hope is to find at least one other person to agree with ya as touchin anything under heaven. |
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| Eddie Robbins wrote: | | georgiapath wrote: | | Eddie Robbins wrote: | Some things only come by prayer and fasting. Are we missing the fasting part.
I do know this....when we got word of Pastor Lynn Hancock having stage 4 cancer, we set a date to fast. We fasted and prayed. He has improved ever since and that's been a year or so. God has touched him! Maybe we don't fast enough? |
Eddie, do you know if he took any kind of treatments?
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Yes, he did. But, stage 4 is pretty hard to recover from even with treatments. |
Thanks Eddie for answering me. I know it's hard but this lets me know that it can be done. Again, thanks |
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| Re: Why do we enlist large groups of people to pray about needs? |
georgiapath |
| Old Time Country Preacher wrote: | | bradfreeman wrote: | I'm curious about our thought process when we start a prayer-chain or ask for large groups of people to pray about a need.
1. Do we hope that, among the crowd, we can find at least 2 or 3 to agree? |
The hope is to find at least one other person to agree with ya as touchin anything under heaven. |
My thoughts exactly. |
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I know this is an old thread, but I had a thought...
One thing we are to do as believers it to "bear one anothers burdens"... Dr. Henry Cloud put it this way, There are some burdens we must bear on our own and there are others we cannot and those are the ones we should share and bear together. Sharing our needs helps us to fulfill the love of Christ. |
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| diakoneo wrote: | I know this is an old thread, but I had a thought...
One thing we are to do as believers it to "bear one anothers burdens"... Dr. Henry Cloud put it this way, There are some burdens we must bear on our own and there are others we cannot and those are the ones we should share and bear together. Sharing our needs helps us to fulfill the love of Christ. |
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Then I will tell you.
If God wants to hear from one of His children, why would He not want to hear from several.
Consider the story of the person in the NT and the Judge.
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I just asked my wife, the most Christian woman I know, this question.
She looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate?
When anyone asks me to pray I do, are you crazy? 
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If one can put a thousand to flight and two ten thousand to flight...I'd want as many as possible praying for me.
If you were going into a physical battle against an enemy, you wouldn't just take two or three people, would you? You'd want an army backing you up, no matter how fearless you are. When we enter into a life and death battle, we need to carry a spiritual army with us, also. Different people carry different strengths within this army. There is strength in numbers.
There is also spiritual strength in corporate prayer. I can't give you chapter and verse, but there is a different dynamic to corporate prayer, when God's people come together in faith and agreement. We are not just trying to twist God's arm to do things our way. We are fighting against a very real enemy in the spiritual realm. We are not battling against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, etc.
A friend of mine who taught me a lot about prayer said that each of us brings a supply when we come together to pray. (By supply, think each of us plugging into a power source together.) If one is missing, there is less power to plug into; if there are more people praying, the greater the supply. Of course, none of that amounts to anything unless we are all "plugged into" God, the ultimate power source from whom we receive that supply. I guess you could call that the measure of faith.
There are also different types of prayer. A prayer of faith and agreement draws together our belief in the power of prayer. Intercession is another type of prayer with a different dynamic. There is also a prayer in which there is an unction/an anointing to pray, where faith is not just a mental assent joining a true belief that God can meet the need, but in which the power of the Holy Spirit is present and ignites our faith and prayer together into something powerful that "availeth much."
Note: I noticed in reading through this thread that bigchurchmouse posted here about having cancer. Let's continue to remember her family in prayer.
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| Carolyn Smith wrote: | ...
Note: I noticed in reading through this thread that bigchurchmouse posted here about having cancer. Let's continue to remember her family in prayer. |
Roger That. Sweet Carolyn! 
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| Re: Why do we enlist large groups of people to pray about needs? |
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| bradfreeman wrote: |
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2. Do we believe that a passionate prayer mob will somehow pressure God into doing something He doesn't really want to do?
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What does our thought process say about our view of God?
Does God even want to answer our prayers? Meet our needs? Save our families? |
#2 reminds me of a quote by Martin Luther:
| Quote: | | “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.” ― Martin Luther |
Here are my thoughts:
We know that when we pray we are not informing God of something He does not already know. "...your Father knows what you need before you ask him." But I believe a large part of prayer is relational. It is about our relationship with our heavenly Father. We demonstrate that we can go to Him at any moment with our needs. It demonstrates our faith in Him. Prayer builds our relationship with our heavenly Father and it reminds us where our source of help comes from.
And so Brad, your question about our view of God when we go to Him in prayer is a good one.
Now to the question at hand:
Prayer also strengthens our relationship with our brothers and sisters. We demonstrate an aspect of unity when we come together in corporate prayer over a need. And we can strengthen each other's faith and encourage one another. Prayer is one way that the bonds of the Spirit can be strengthened between us and others and between us and God. As has been said already, we "bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." |
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