Saturday February 20th, 2021
Memorize: Acts 4:31 New King James Versions (NKJV)
« And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. »
Read: Acts 4:23-31 New King James Versions (NKJV)
23 And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said:
“Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,
25 who by the mouth of Your servant David have said:
‘Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things?
26 The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ.’
27 “For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus,
whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.
29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word,
30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken;
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Message:
There are certain prayers that cause the earth to shake.
Not prayers of God give me this, God give me that, though.
I am talking about prayers of dedication, prayers like Lord; my life is at Your disposal, do whatever You want with it. I lay my life on the altar and I become a living sacrifice to You today; Lord, use me for Your glory.
When God begins to hear these kinds of prayers, He will come down.
Acts 4:23-31 tells us that the disciples were praying and thereafter, some people told them not to preach the gospel again.
They gathered themselves together and said Father, You hear what they are saying; over to You. All we ask is that You give us boldness, give us miracles, give us signs, so that we can preach more. The Bible says the house shook.
In 1979, my Father-in-the-Lord called me and four others to his room high up in Mayor Hotel in Tulsa, USA, saying My children, I am going soon; the one who will be taking over from me is Pastor Adeboye.
I collapsed on the floor and everybody began to pray. You can be sure that the prayers offered were not the gentlemanly kind; they were serious prayers. Suddenly, we heard a knock on the door. On opening the door, we saw the maintenance manager of the hotel who asked what kind of musical instrument we were playing. We explained that we were not playing any instrument, but he insisted that we had to have been playing one as the hotel was shaking and the source of the shaking had been traced to our room.
We insisted that we were only praying, but he didn’t believe us, so he checked under the bed, the wardrobe and looked everywhere in the room then left when he didn’t find anything. The hotel was locked down because they could not find the source of the shaking and they didn’t want to believe that it was just prayers. Recently, I went back there and as I looked at the hotel, I felt compassion on the owners, so I laid my hand on the wall and prayed a simple prayer. It was reopened six months after.
It is very clear that the great things happening in the RCCG today are a result of the prayers that fateful day in our hotel room in Tulsa.
If you want the glory of God to come down into your life and transform everything for good, you need to start praying earth-shaking prayers.
Pray for power to do God’s work, pray for boldness to preach in any situation, pray for a national revival in your country.
Action point: Go ahead and pray some earth-shaking prayers now.
Author: Pst E. A. Adeboye.
Text edited by Naomie
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