19 Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them” Matthew 18:19-20.
I love these words of Jesus because Jesus encourage us to pray together. When two of us get together for prayer and we agree what to pray for, and we know that our prayer, in the final analysis, is always a prayer for what God wishes, it will be answered perfectly by God. And it will be answered in His time. We know that God can do anything, and that God wants only what is best for us all, so our prayer must reflect this truth. What God wishes for us is the best, so think of this in prayer. Jesus told us to pray this way when He said to pray “that Your Kingdom may come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” That is such an important aspect of our prayer that Jesus taught us. That is so important a way to pray.
Remember too that when we pray, it is God who has called us, graced us, to pray. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” Jesus said in John 14:6. This is what Jesus was saying when He reminded us above that “where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them” Matthew 18:20. God is with us because He calls us to pray. That’s the point.
So consider finding a prayer partner, someone with whom you can get together to pray. And remember that God will be with you when you pray. Take private time, too, to sit quietly in God’s presence in silence. Just come into His presence. And read and think deeply about the the Word in the Bible.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up” 1 Thessalonians 5:11.
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” 2 Chronicles 7:14.
“And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” Acts 2:42.
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