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From: LRB
Category: General
Date: 21 Feb 2008
Time: 14:03:48 -0700
Remote Name: 202.131.174.80
It is certain that we need to be a praying people – if we are not we will be a powerless church relegated to the equivalency and affect of some country club! Jesus said in Matthew 6:6 when you pray…enter your closet and close the door. Public prayer is also necessary, as are prayers throughout the day, but let us not neglect to do as Jesus himself did and enter into our closet of prayer daily. This may mean (as it did for Jesus) that you have to rise early or go to bed late, but it is absolutely paramount to the furtherance of the Kingdom that we seek the Lord’s face and will from our closets. Hey, if Jesus needed to pray daily how much more do we need to? Dr. A. J. Gordon - "The deepest need of the Church today is not for any material or external thing, but the deepest need is spiritual. Prayerless work will never bring in the kingdom. We neglect to pray in the prescribed way. We seldom enter the closet and shut the door for a season of prayer. Kingdom interests are pressing on us thick and fast and we must pray. Prayerless giving will never evangelize the world." Luke 5:16 (NKJV) 16So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed. You can catch my first sermon in a series on prayer at the following link: http://bowerlife.com/Sermons/20080217 Prayers Necessity.mp3