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October 13
A PRAYING CHURCH

Scripture: Matthew 21:13 “And said unto them, it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

    “We live in a day characterized by the multiplication of man’s machinery and the diminution of God’s power.  The great cry of our  day is work, work, work, new organizations, new methods, new machinery; the great need of our day is prayer.  It was a master stroke of the devil when he got the church so generally to lay aside the mighty weapon of prayer.  The devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations, and deftly contrive machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ if it will only give up
praying.”
    Our problem today is that while His house is a house of prayer, we through substitutions, have made it a “den of thieves.”  We have robbed the church of its power with God when we have robbed ourselves of the privilege of prayer.  The thing preeminent and distinct above everything else in the church is prayer.
     God has clearly taught us in His word that the house of God is a House of prayer.  We must realize the importance of praying together in unity with the saints of God at His house.  We will never find the power and blessing that could be ours if we neglect to pray in the sanctuary.
    “Satan has marshaled his forces…The world, the flesh, and the devil.  It is now a dark day, but now ‘it is time for the Lord, to work for they have made void thy law.’ (Psalm 119:126).  And He is getting ready to work and now He is listening for the voice of prayer.” 
    In Jeremiah 33:3 the Lord says; “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”  When we call on Him in the sanctuary, great things will happen.