18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

19 and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. (Ephesians 6:18-20)

“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God.” - John Bunyan

"Pray without ceasing is what the Lord has called us (1 Thess. 5:17). As we learned in a recent sermon series on Ephesians 6 "we will not stand in the evil day if we do not pray". Prayer is critical for the life of each and every believer and all of us are students in the school of prayer. Whether you are a new believer or longtime believer, we must pray. All of us in Christ are invited to this awesome privilege and can approach God our Father with humble and appropriate confidence that we can go before God because through Jesus we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father (Ephesians 2:18). Our Lord and Savior connected prayer to watchfulness (Luke 21:34-36). In his excellent little book on prayer, Pastor Paul Tautges once referred to prayer as "the language of dependence on God." 

Let us pray secretly on our own and in our homes with family and friends! And let us us pray together calling upon our Lord who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or imagine to His glory (Ephesians 3:20-21)!

Email Pastor Brandon for more information on our 7:30 p.m. prayer meeting. Next to the Lord's Day gathering there is hardly a more important meeting in the life of our church than this time when we call upon the Lord in prayer!