BBD 01.08.15 Facilitating Your Spiritual Break Out - Pt 6 Praying With Others (Classic)

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The Burning
Bush Devotional

Classic
from 2004

01.08.15

Facilitating Your Spiritual Break
Out - Part 6 Praying With Others

Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything
that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.For
where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of
them. - Matthew 18:19-20 NKJV.

On July 1, 1857, Jeremiah
Lanphier received an appointment as a city missionary
in New York City from the Dutch Reformed Church. Lanphier was described as
being a “quiet and zealous businessman.” How would he be able to make any kind of difference? He
decided to begin by holding a prayer meeting at noon on Wednesdays and he
randomly passed out a few invitations for others to join him. The prayer
meeting was held on Fulton Street a few blocks from where the World Trade
Center would eventually be located. Lanphier relates what happened, “Going my rounds in the performance of my duty one day, as I was walking
along the streets, the idea was suggested to my mind that an hour of prayer,
from twelve to one o'clock, would be beneficial to businessmen, who usually in
great numbers take that hour for rest and refreshment. The idea was to have
singing, prayer, exhortation, relation of religious experience, as the case
might be; that none should be required to stay the whole hour; that all should
come and go as their engagements should allow or require, or their inclinations
dictate. Arrangements were made, and at twelve o'clock noon, on the 23rd day of
September, 1857, the door of the third story lecture room was thrown open.”

Jeremiah had to pray by himself for the first thirty
minutes, but then a few men began arriving, until eventually five had come
making a total of six people. The next meeting was held on September 30^th
with 20 people attending. On October 7^th, the meeting had grown to
over 30 and it was decided to have the meetings daily. Within only a matter of
months, prayer meetings multiplied until there were over 10,000 people praying
together in the city in these meetings. The movement spread across the country
and to England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The result was that over one
million people came to know Christ as their Savior. Major social changes
also were brought about because of these new believers.

God used one person, to start one prayer meeting that
changed the world! What would happen in your world if you asked a few
friends to join you in prayer? Invite them to your home, or ask your pastor
if you can meet at church, and allow everyone to come that would like to be a
part of it. What would happen if you were to do that? Most likely God
would use you to change the world too! What a wonderful spiritual break out
that would be!

Copyright © 2004-2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites received
visits from 184 countries in 2015. Celebrating 16 years online since January
31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the
truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn
profile with endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
an end to the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace
and love. Please pray for Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young
Christian man with a wife and two children. Unless God intervenes there is
little hope for him. Please also pray for Shane Hall who has cancer and for all
those afflicted with this terrible disease. My sister, Reta, is also in need a
prayer with a serious health issue. Many prayer needs are posted at the Burning
Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer requests
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If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at http://www.theburningbush.net for the “Devotional of the Day” and read the devotional
there.

The New Pastor's
Training Manual is now available for download on Amazon. You can READ for
FREE a LARGE SAMPLE (approx. 17 pages) which includes how God worked in my life
to Call me to Preach and other material. Click on the “Look Inside Link.” If
you do buy the 216 page eBook for $3 (FREE if you have KINDLE UNLIMITED.)
please write a review. Thanks! Here is the link: http://amzn.to/1ufa1ov
If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from the Burning Bush
website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

The Burning
Bush Devotional

Classic
from 2004

01.08.15

Facilitating Your Spiritual Break
Out - Part 6 Praying With Others

Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything
that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.For
where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of
them. - Matthew 18:19-20 NKJV.

On July 1, 1857, Jeremiah
Lanphier received an appointment as a city missionary
in New York City from the Dutch Reformed Church. Lanphier was described as
being a “quiet and zealous businessman.” How would he be able to make any kind of difference? He
decided to begin by holding a prayer meeting at noon on Wednesdays and he
randomly passed out a few invitations for others to join him. The prayer
meeting was held on Fulton Street a few blocks from where the World Trade
Center would eventually be located. Lanphier relates what happened, “Going my rounds in the performance of my duty one day, as I was walking
along the streets, the idea was suggested to my mind that an hour of prayer,
from twelve to one o'clock, would be beneficial to businessmen, who usually in
great numbers take that hour for rest and refreshment. The idea was to have
singing, prayer, exhortation, relation of religious experience, as the case
might be; that none should be required to stay the whole hour; that all should
come and go as their engagements should allow or require, or their inclinations
dictate. Arrangements were made, and at twelve o'clock noon, on the 23rd day of
September, 1857, the door of the third story lecture room was thrown open.”

Jeremiah had to pray by himself for the first thirty
minutes, but then a few men began arriving, until eventually five had come
making a total of six people. The next meeting was held on September 30^th
with 20 people attending. On October 7^th, the meeting had grown to
over 30 and it was decided to have the meetings daily. Within only a matter of
months, prayer meetings multiplied until there were over 10,000 people praying
together in the city in these meetings. The movement spread across the country
and to England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The result was that over one
million people came to know Christ as their Savior. Major social changes
also were brought about because of these new believers.

God used one person, to start one prayer meeting that
changed the world! What would happen in your world if you asked a few
friends to join you in prayer? Invite them to your home, or ask your pastor
if you can meet at church, and allow everyone to come that would like to be a
part of it. What would happen if you were to do that? Most likely God
would use you to change the world too! What a wonderful spiritual break out
that would be!

Copyright © 2004-2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites received
visits from 184 countries in 2015. Celebrating 16 years online since January
31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the
truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn
profile with endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
an end to the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace
and love. Please pray for Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young
Christian man with a wife and two children. Unless God intervenes there is
little hope for him. Please also pray for Shane Hall who has cancer and for all
those afflicted with this terrible disease. My sister, Reta, is also in need a
prayer with a serious health issue. Many prayer needs are posted at the Burning
Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer requests
there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the
burningbushdevo devotional group by sending a blank email to
burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html
text group (Because of time constraints the devotional is only being sent now
in html format) by sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org
and you may unsubscribe by sending a blank email to
burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email.
If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org