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Daily Fountain 2017 - Pray Until Something Happens







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."

Source:     The Daily Fountain 2017
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
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