Missions
Corporate Prayer For The Nations
"Now, I would say this and just summarize that where the ministry fails today, it always fails through, not lack of gifts, but it fails through lack of power, of spiritual power. And the reason it fails through lack of spiritual power is lack of understanding and practice of corporate and individual prayer. If you think of prayer as breathing, there are some churches that haven’t breathed in quite a while. And their faces have gone from red to blue to black and they’ve died. A church that does not pray is dead, a Christian who does not pray is well on his way to death. … It is amazing to me how people can come up with every possible solution to the problems of the church, but they don’t get solved, not really, if there is not a return to God. And prayer is just simply drawing near to God.” (C. John (Jack) Miller, Radical Corporate Prayer, Unpublished, pp.7-8)
1. We are come to pray as adopted sons and daughters,
"And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 18:2-4)
2. In agreement with one another in partnership with the Holy Spirit,
“Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” (Matt. 18:19-20)
3. Claiming the promises of our Heavenly Father,
“And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” (1 Cor. 1:30)
4. Praying for our prayerlessness in our churches,
“There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you.…” (Isa. 64:7a)
5. And Praying for God’s own welcoming heart for the nations He is bringing to Nashville.
“Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.” (Rom. 15:7)