Continuous Prayer

Bible reading: Acts 2:42, Acts 6:4, Acts 8:15, Acts 12:5

Prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit marked the Early Church, releasing God’s power and advancing the Gospel. Every decision and trial was brought before Him in prayer, always with thanksgiving and reverent praise for God the Father and Jesus Christ.

Testimony: A Church Learns to Pray

St. Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, East London — better known as Shoreditch Church — was not famous for revival. It was a church in an ordinary urban neighbourhood, with ordinary people, carrying ordinary concerns. But when reports began to arrive of young adults across the world turning to God in prayer, something stirred in the hearts of the worshippers there.

They began to cry out to God for the same in their own community, gathering repeatedly to pray and recite Psalm 24 — a psalm about the King of glory entering His people and His city. Slowly, something began to shift. A deeper hunger for God emerged in the congregation. People who had prayed occasionally began to pray consistently. Those who had maintained a polite distance from God drew closer.

Out of this season of seeking, the church established a House of Prayer — a dedicated space and rhythm for ongoing intercession, giving the community a place to continually seek the face of God. The prayer revival that began in those meetings did not stay inside the church walls. It began to reach outward into the surrounding neighbourhood, touching unbelievers as well as believers.

What started as a desperate cry to God for something more became the very thing that changed the spiritual atmosphere of the street, the block, and the lives around them.

“They devoted themselves...to prayers.” (Acts 2:42)

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Let us pray

• Ask the Holy Spirit to draw new believers into a daily pursuit of God, earnestly seeking to know His voice and to be guided by Him.
• Pray for church planters and missionaries to abide in the Lord through prayer and to act only according to His instruction.

Step Out

Commit to one uninterrupted hour of prayer each day this week.