Let Us Be People of Prayer

What does the Church really need to succeed? There are a few answers to that question but I would say that one the biggest if not the biggest needs is to have people of prayer.

Author E. M. Bounds wrote, “What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.” We don’t need the World’s Methods of Church growth! We are not and by God’s grace never will be a “seeker-sensitive” church! Unfortunately those who say they are seeking God in our culture today are many times just seeking a religious experience and a good feeling. That is not the God I know!

If we desire to see our Church grow then we need to get on our knees and pour out our hearts to the Lord. We need to pray corporately as a body and that’s a large part of what we do on Wednesday Evening. I encourage you to come and be a part of that blessing. We also need to be individuals of prayer. You might think what can I do. What could one person’s prayer really accomplish? Remember Elijah in James 5:17? The Bible says he was a normal man just like you and me, yet when he prayed, according to God’s will, the results were literally miraculous.

Let me encourage you to be in prayer this week each and every day over the small and the large things. Let’s pray that the Lord will bless our Church with souls and visitors as He sees fit.