Prayer

“Prayer, is the match that lights the fuse, which release the explosive power of the Holy Spirit into the affairs of men…”
Joy Dawson

Welcome to Gateway’s prayer page. We hope it will inspire, challenge and encourage you in your prayer journey. You will also find some prayer suggestions here to help you pray for the wider Gateway family.

Jesus’ life was a life of prayer. He did not need a crisis to motivate Him to pray. Jesus lived praying, He died praying, and He went up into heaven praying.

His disciples didn’t ask Jesus to teach them how to lead or preach or teach or communicate they asked Him to teach them how to pray. They must have concluded that His prayer life was the key to His effective ministry and leadership. The disciples didn’t ask because Jesus was always talking about the benefits of prayer, they asked because they had seen Him so often in prayer and witnessed the subsequent explosion of holy power.

Do you often not know how to pray in a particular situation or circumstance? Jesus, in John 14:26, called the Holy Spirit our ‘Helper’.

The Holy Spirit is there to help us in those times that we are lost for words and seem to have no way to articulate what is on and in our hearts. The gift of spiritual language, that is ours for the asking, is a nugget of pure gold, a priceless gift and the Holly Spirit stands at our side ready and waiting for us to invite Him into our prayer life.

Rms 8:26 “..the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us, in accordance with God’s will.

We have within our reach the opportunity for God, the Creator of the universe, the omnipotent, omnipresent, all-powerful King to intercede for us, our situation and those we are praying for.

Prayer is relational. Without relationship with Him, my prayer life will be like an autumn leaf, with no life-giving sap. If I don’t trust Him, His faithfulness, His ability to bring order out of chaos, light into darkness and that His heart towards me and those I pray for is for good, it will drastically affect my faith and way I pray.

Be challenged by this question:

On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you, honestly, describe your relationship with God?

[1 being distant/with little relationship…10 being intimate/trusting]

Where do you fit on that continuum and what actions can you take to deepen and develop your relationship?

E.M. Bounds wrote books on prayer in the early 1900s and, if you can look past the old-fashioned language, you will find absolute gold within their pages on all aspects of prayer.

He said ‘The very essence of prayer is the spirit of devotion. Without devotion prayer is an empty form, a vain round of words. Prayer must be aflame. Its ardour must consume. A soul devoted to God is a fervent soul, and prayer is the creature of that flame. He can only pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.’

Do you want to pray for Gateway but don’t know what to pray?

Pray Ephesians 1:17 “We ask that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father may give Gateway the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that we may know Him better. We pray that the eyes of our hearts may be enlightened in order that we may know the hope to which He has called us, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.”

Continue to pray the simple prayer of Isaiah 56:7 “We pray that Gateway will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

Let us be a people who pray continually, whoever we are and wherever we go

How can we pray for you?

"The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with." - James 5:16 (MSG)

We have a team of people who regularly pray for our Gateway community, city & nation. If you would like prayer, please submit your prayer request below and someone will be praying for you this week!

If you would like to talk to our Pastoral Team, phone 021 318 663.

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