Prayer
"God does nothing but by prayer and everything with it!"
- John Wesley
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the great work." - Oswald Chambers
"Prayer is the highest power through which love is released." - Joy Frangipane Marion
"God has called intercessors not to wonder about the future but to create it through the knowledge of His living Word and prayer! Our Father gives us access to the future right now. You ask, "How do we know what to pray?" The Lord Jesus has told us plainly, "Pray, then, in this way: "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:9-10)
"When you hear from God and then pray His Word, you are having an impact on the as-yet-unformed essence of life with the Spirit of God Himself! This is why God calls us not only to know His word but also to pray it. We must go from intellectualizing God's Word to being impregnated by it." - Francis Frangipane from his book This Day We Fight!
Acts 6:4: "but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
Prayer is central and it is vital to everything we do at Missions Church Orlando. Jeremiah 33:3 says "Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know." Who better to call upon and ask how to build the church then the Head of the Church - Jesus Christ Himself. He said, "His house would be a house of prayer for all nations" (Mark 11:17). He was quoting Isaiah who said, "Even them I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer." (Isaiah 56:7 ) Prayer is a joy to us! Certainly nothing boring or laborious about it!
One day as I was praying I saw a wide, broad field. The Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and told me this was what we were building through prayer - a massively large platform from which God could and would move. The greatest advances we make are always first in prayer and in the realm of the Spirit and then in the natural for God can do nothing except that men (humanity) prays.
We're building a corporate prayer altar on Wednesday nights at 7:00 PM. We also pray before each service, to make room for and invite God Most High into our services. Our hearts desire is to encounter His tangible presence each time we meet, to go as wide, as long, as deep and as high as we possibly can! Come join us on this adventure of prayer!
- Pastor Helen Marshall
- John Wesley
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the great work." - Oswald Chambers
"Prayer is the highest power through which love is released." - Joy Frangipane Marion
"God has called intercessors not to wonder about the future but to create it through the knowledge of His living Word and prayer! Our Father gives us access to the future right now. You ask, "How do we know what to pray?" The Lord Jesus has told us plainly, "Pray, then, in this way: "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:9-10)
"When you hear from God and then pray His Word, you are having an impact on the as-yet-unformed essence of life with the Spirit of God Himself! This is why God calls us not only to know His word but also to pray it. We must go from intellectualizing God's Word to being impregnated by it." - Francis Frangipane from his book This Day We Fight!
Acts 6:4: "but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
Prayer is central and it is vital to everything we do at Missions Church Orlando. Jeremiah 33:3 says "Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know." Who better to call upon and ask how to build the church then the Head of the Church - Jesus Christ Himself. He said, "His house would be a house of prayer for all nations" (Mark 11:17). He was quoting Isaiah who said, "Even them I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer." (Isaiah 56:7 ) Prayer is a joy to us! Certainly nothing boring or laborious about it!
One day as I was praying I saw a wide, broad field. The Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and told me this was what we were building through prayer - a massively large platform from which God could and would move. The greatest advances we make are always first in prayer and in the realm of the Spirit and then in the natural for God can do nothing except that men (humanity) prays.
We're building a corporate prayer altar on Wednesday nights at 7:00 PM. We also pray before each service, to make room for and invite God Most High into our services. Our hearts desire is to encounter His tangible presence each time we meet, to go as wide, as long, as deep and as high as we possibly can! Come join us on this adventure of prayer!
- Pastor Helen Marshall
Additional Scriptures on Prayer
Isaiah 56:6-7: "6 Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the LORD to serve Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant - 7 even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."
Philippians 4:6: "Be anxious for nothing, but IN EVERYTHING by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." (emphasis added)
2 Chronicles 7:12-16: "12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 IF My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. 16 Now I have chosen and sanctified this house that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually." (emphasis added)
Matthew 6:6-8: "6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him."
Psalm 2:8: "Ask of Me and I will give the nations for Your inheritance and the ends of the earth for Your possession."
Psalm 109:4: "...but I will give myself to prayer."
Luke 6:12-13: "12 Now it came to pass in those days that He (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God, 13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles."
Matthew 17:21: "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
Philippians 4:6: "Be anxious for nothing, but IN EVERYTHING by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." (emphasis added)
2 Chronicles 7:12-16: "12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 IF My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. 16 Now I have chosen and sanctified this house that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually." (emphasis added)
Matthew 6:6-8: "6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him."
Psalm 2:8: "Ask of Me and I will give the nations for Your inheritance and the ends of the earth for Your possession."
Psalm 109:4: "...but I will give myself to prayer."
Luke 6:12-13: "12 Now it came to pass in those days that He (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God, 13 And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles."
Matthew 17:21: "However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
