Years ago, I attended the Tuesday night Prayer Meeting at the Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York City, and it forever changed my life. While my own personal prayer life was dramatically impacted, specifically, God used that experience to birth within me the desire to one day start a similar prayer meeting.
I didn’t necessarily know when. And I didn’t necessarily know where. But I knew, one day… In the book of Acts, as Dr. Luke is discussing the birth of the early church, he writes:
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles… …Every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved. (Acts 2:42 – 47)
In the second chapter of his book, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, Jim Cymbala, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, shares the following quote as he discusses the magnitude of the
prayer meeting in the life of their Church Family: The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer,
and from it, we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If God be near a church, It. Must. Pray. One day. It’s here.
See you Wednesday!