1) Start A Prayer Meeting
In 1857 Jeremiah Lanphier's Little Prayer Meeting
Started A Great Revival On This Earth
Jeremiah Lanphier (1809-1898)
On September 23, 1857 a christian layman named Jeremiah Lanphier held his first ever businessmen's prayer meeting from Noon to 1PM in lower Manhattan, New York City called the Fulton Street prayer meeting. It was not by all accounts a rousing success. Jeremiah sent out thousands of flyers about his prayer meeting for several weeks. The first meeting was attended by only six men by the end of the hour, with Jeremiah Lanphier praying alone for the first 30 minutes.
But after the prayer meetings began, the stock market crashed and thousands of families lost all their money and possessions. Week by week, Jeremiah Lanphier's tiny lunch hour prayer meeting grew larger and larger. Eventually instead of only 6 men praying once a week, 10000 men were praying every day from Noon to 1PM. This was the greatest spiritual awakening that the modern world had ever seen.
The New York newspapers took notice and when word traveled to other American cities, America experienced spontaneous revival everywhere. In Cleveland, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri, thousands of people gathered together in downtown churches and homes three times each day for prayer. In Chicago, Illinois churches had to have waiting lists for people wanting to teach Sunday school. And all across America, pastors were baptizing 20000 new believers every week.
When other countries in the world learned of Jeremiah Lanphier's revival, they also experienced revival. In England, entire towns were converted to Jesus. Some towns disbanded their police force because of a lack of crime. And because millions of people got saved because of the prayers from Jeremiah Lanphier's little prayer group, churches all over the world had to hold services outside just to accomodate the crowds. God started this spectacular worldwide revival with just one man named Jeremiah Lanphier that changed the course of history.
Jeremiah Lanphier was a soft spoken businessman with no formal theological training, and the revival he started was largely a layman's movement, emphasizing the power of simple, persistent prayer. Jeremiah Lanphier presided over the daily prayer meetings in New York City for 36 years until his retirement in 1893, having hosted over 11,000 meetings. The movement is considered one of the most significant spiritual awakenings in American history. Jeremiah Lanphier's story affirms that one person, in humble obedience to God, can make a profound difference.
Can It Happen Again?
Who Is Willing To Start A Prayer Meeting Like Jeremiah Lanphier
That Can Start A Revival Where Millions Become Saved For Jesus
2) Have A Group Pray for Specific People Continually
R.A. Torrey told the following story about a few godly men in a little town in Maine that formed a prayer group. They all agreed to center their prayers on the hardest man of their town who was a hopeless drunkard. In just a week, this man got gloriously saved. Then they centered their prayers on the next hardest man of the town and soon he also got saved. And as they kept praying for the lost sinners of their town, 300 souls were brought to Jesus and saved. Remember definite prayer for lost sinners will start a revival where untold numbers of souls will become saved.
I pray in Jesus name that someone reading this story will gather groups of people to pray for specific lost sinners and win them to Jesus Christ. Choose the worst, meanest, and hopeless sinner in your city and pray continuously for their salvation. I believe that hopeless sinner will get saved and revival will begin.
When you pray, pray with a mustard seed of faith in the name of Jesus. Matthew 17:20 says If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Instead of struggling and praying hard in yourself for hours, pray with just a mustard seed of faith and watch mountains and problems disappear for ever. And remember Jesus said at John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Ask for whatever you need in the name of Jesus while you deny sin, and you will receive your request.
And remember the way to get all your prayers answered. Abide in Jesus. Jesus said at John 15:7 If ye abide in me (continue and remain with the Lord Jesus), and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. The reason God will answer all your prayers is because when anyone abides in Jesus they will not sin. Deny sin daily because God doesn't hear our prayers when we sin. Psalm 66:18 says If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. To deny sin daily, stay in the Word of God, fellowship at your local Church, and keep Praying. You see Word, Church, and Prayer will deny sin and get your prayers answered.
3) Pray Before Making Life Changing Decisions
R.A. Torrey said the reason why so many people fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of the battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained the victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles. Fight them on your knees before the temptation comes and you will always have victory. James 5:16 says Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Philippians 4:6 says Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. In other words don't react to a problem and make an unwise decision. Pray and tell God about your problem or life changing decision and wait for God's answer and direction before you move. Jesus either answers Yes with Peace to your requests or No with No Peace to your requests. Without God, we should fear to move. But when He bids us go, it is dangerous to tarry.
According To Philippians 4:6
Bother God About Everything
Or
Everything Will Bother You
Let Go And Let God; Let God Handle All Your Problems
And finally have importunity when you pray by persistently asking God to grant your prayer requests. People will tell you that if you ask God a request more than once you lack faith. This is wrong because the Lord Jesus Himself prayed the same prayer and words three times in the Garden of Gethsemane. Matthew 26:44 says And He (Jesus) left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. The people that get blessed the most are the people that ask Jesus the most prayer requests. James 4:2 says Ye have not, because ye ask not.
Galatians 6:9 says And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Note that the way to reap your blessings and faint not is to keep praying. Luke 18:1 says And He (Jesus) spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. Keep praying for lost souls and witness Jesus everywhere. Tell people everywhere how to get saved. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.
Pictured above because of the man's importunity (persistent prayer requests) for three loaves of bread at midnight, his prayer requests were granted. At first, the friend told the man at Luke 11:7 Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. But this man got the friend to give him three loaves of bread because of his importunity or persistent requests after his friend's initial denial. The word importunity appears only one time in the bible at Luke 11:8. Jesus said at Luke 11:8 Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity (continuous persistent requests even after denials) he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Blessed Words Of Wisdom
Your friends can keep you out of heaven
But your friends can't get you out of hell
God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick
Blessed Poem Titled It Matters Not
It matters not if I've been hurt
It matters not at all
That sometimes from my weary eyes
The scalding teardrops fall
What matters most is if I've erred
And not confessed the sin
And through my lack some
needy soul has failed to follow Him
It matters not if cherished friends
On whom I lean in vain
Have wounded me by word and deed
And left me with my pain
What matters is I can forgive
Again and yet again
It's not have they been true
But Lord have I been true to them
Twill matter not when evening comes
How rough the road I've trod
If only I have walked with Him
And led some soul to God
I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.
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