Tuesday July 25
(St. James' Day)
Bible Reading: Acts. 12: 1 - 19
Topic: Pray Until Something Happens!
When righteous men fold
their hands and do nothing during trying times, they only make it expedient for
evil to thrive and spread.
When Herod saw that his
murder of James pleased the Jews, he arrested Peter and planned to murder him
after the Passover.
This provoked the Church
to prayers
The earnest prayer of the
Church received the approval of Heaven as the Angel of God intervened and
miraculously freed Peter.
The Lord will always
honour a praying Church or people because that is His Will.
How is your prayer life?
and that of your Church?
This witness to the power
of prayer and James' testimony that "the effective fervent prayer of the
righteous availeth much" (James 5: 16) should provoke the Church in
Nigeria to prayer, in these difficult times.
When a Church or a People
that know the mind of God pray according to His Will, His Hand is moved to do
great things.
The Lord expects the
Church in these perilous times to pray and show the way forward.
He also calls Christians
to awake from their spiritual slumber to WATCH AND PRAY against all the attacks
on the Church by agents of darkness.
Prayer
Lord, stir up Your Church
by Your Spirit that we may pray aright in a way that moves You to act mightily
on our behalf, Amen.
Memory Verse Act. 12: 5
"Peter therefore was
kept in Prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for
him."
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
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