The message in church today centered around prayer and it got me thinking about my own prayer life. Specifically, about the times that I have prayed, both for myself and for others and the outcomes that my prayers generated. I have seen healing in response to prayer many times since becoming a Christian, in several of these cases the healing occurred right before my eyes. And yet I have prayed for my own healing and received no answer. What is different in these experiences? When I thought back this morning in church, I realized this simple truth, when I was praying for my own healing I was praying alone. When I witnessed healing in response to prayer, I was not alone but I was praying as part of a group. I'm not saying individual prayer is not effective, God has never let me down, he has never abandoned me. What I am saying is that our prayers are so much more effective when we pray with others. Prayer is not just for private conversations with God, it is also for us to gather together and lift our voices up as one, it is a "team sport" so to speak.
Matthew 18: 19-20
19 Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
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