The Believers Prayer - Acts 4:23-36 Who they prayed to: ‘Sovereign Lord, you made the heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

The Believers Prayer - Acts 4:23-36 Who they prayed to: ‘Sovereign Lord, you made the heaven and earth and sea and everything in them. ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding and he will make your paths straight’. Proverbs 3:5-6

The Believers Prayer - Acts 4:23-36 Whilst there may be no power in prayer itself Scripture and history show there is a way of praying that is more likely to get an answer. Persistent prayer – like Jacob wrestling and the persistent widow. ‘The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.’ [NIV]. James 5:15 The emphasis is not on the way the person prays, but on: who they pray to the character of the pray-er

‘Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.  Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.’ 1 Peter 4:12-14.

For you have been given not only the privilege of trusting in Christ but also the privilege of suffering for him. Philippians 1:29

‘Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:1-5