Epaphras Prays Podcast

Introduction:

In The Four Essentials of Prevailing Prayer, C.H. Spurgeon unpacks a single verse — Mark 11:24 — with profound depth, revealing that effective prayer is not about repetition or religious formality, but about faith in action. He challenges believers to move beyond vague petitions and half-hearted requests, calling instead for prayer that is focused, fervent, confident, and expectant. This isn’t prayer as a ritual — it’s prayer as a divine force, capable of moving heaven and earth.

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. In the podcast is a look at what Spurgeon draws from Mark 11:24, outlining four qualities he considers essential to effective, prevailing prayer.

“Our prayers are God’s decrees in another shape.”

In short, Spurgeon presents prayer not as a passive ritual but as a powerful, purposeful act requiring clarity, passion, faith, and confident expectation.

Here are 3 questions I’m wrestling with based on Spurgeon’s sermon:

* How can I cultivate a “realizing expectation” in my prayer life — believing I’ve already received what I’ve asked for — without falling into presumption or ignoring God’s timing?

* Spurgeon says prayer is “the grandest power in the entire universe.” How does this view challenge or reshape common modern understandings of prayer as merely a spiritual habit or emotional comfort?

* What practical steps can I take to move from vague, general prayers to ones with “definite objects” — and how do I discern whether my desires align with God’s will before I pray with confidence?

Conclusion:

Spurgeon’s message remains as urgent today as when it was first preached: prayer is not passive — it is powerful, personal, and purposeful. When we pray with clear intent, burning desire, unwavering faith, and joyful expectation, we align ourselves with God’s own decrees.

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The term “Bride of Christ” is a beautiful metaphor that describes Christians, the collective body of believers we call the Church, and our intimate relationship with Jesus. Throughout the New Testament, this imagery paints a picture of Jesus as the devoted Groom and the Church as His cherished Bride.

Jesus as the Groom

In Scripture, Jesus is portrayed as a loving Groom preparing for His wedding day. Revelation captures this moment of anticipation: “Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready” (Revelation 19:7 NIV). This passage points to the future when Jesus will return to earth and unite with His Church in the most significant wedding celebration imaginable.

Dressed for the Wedding

When that day comes, the Bride will be clothed in fine linen, bright and pure. Revelation 19:8 tells us that “the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints” (NRSV). Just as a bride prepares herself for her wedding day, Christians are called to prepare ourselves for union with Christ. Preparation involves growing in purity and holiness, not as a distant future goal, but currently. Through the work of the Holy Spirit and the transforming power of God’s Word, we are being sanctified and made ready even now.

What It Means to Be the Bride

Understanding that we are the Bride of Christ has huge implications for how we live. As members of this Bride, we are to live in unity and love with one another, reflecting the deep commitment Christ has shown us. This unity becomes a powerful testimony to the world of what the Gospel does. We are also called to faithfulness and devotion to Christ, rejecting anything that would draw us away from Him spiritually. This means being dedicated to sound doctrine, genuine worship, and faithful service.

Most importantly, we are encouraged to live in readiness, constantly preparing ourselves through spiritual growth and discipleship. We are to be “adorned and prepared for union with Christ, her husband” (Revelation 21:2), with our adornment representing the righteousness and glory that Christ Himself bestows upon us.

Part of our preparing involves praying.

Praying is Loving the Bride

One of the most practical ways we can love the Bride of Christ is to pray for her. When we pray for the Church and for our brothers and sisters in Christ, something remarkable happens within us. It becomes difficult to harbor resentment, criticism, or gossip toward those we are praying for. Our hearts soften, and serving and blessing them becomes increasingly normal. The more we pray for people, the more we begin to love them as Jesus taught us to love, even our enemies.

When we intercede for the Church, we are actually walking in the same love that Christ demonstrated. Jesus is jealous for His Bride in the most beautiful sense, and He calls us to “walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God” (Ephesians 5:2). By praying for the Bride to be made ready, we participate in Christ’s own passion for her preparation and transformation.

The Word as Our Cleansing Agent

Central to the Bride’s preparation is the cleansing work of God’s Word.

When we pray for the Church to be sanctified and cleansed, we are praying that she would be transformed by the washing of water through the Word. This is not merely a physical act but a profound spiritual transformation. The Word of God is living and active, capable of renewing our hearts and minds in ways nothing else can (Hebrews 4:12). Through Scripture, we are taught, corrected, and trained in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and through the Word, our hearts are purified (John 15:3).

The Gospel and the teachings of Christ have power to cleanse and sanctify us, revealing God’s will and empowering holy living. By praying from Scripture, like prayers found in Psalm 119, we are inviting the Word itself to do its transforming work in the Church and our own hearts.

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Living as the Prepared Bride

Christians are called to live in a way that reveals this identity as the Bride of Christ. This means maturing and growing daily in love, purity, and holiness, allowing the Word to shape our thoughts and actions. Many of the prayers we find in Psalm 119 speak to knowing and living by God’s laws, ordinances, and precepts. In essence, they are prayers for help in loving the Groom, Jesus, and in becoming the prepared Bride He is coming for.

When we pray for the Church using these scriptural prayers, we are asking for the Lord’s help in becoming that adorned and ready Bride, presented to Him at the end of the age for the wedding supper of the Lamb. In doing so, we join Christ in His loving work of preparation, and we grow in our own capacity to love as He loves.

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From Mark 11 starting in verse 12.

The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was any fruit on it. But when He reached it, He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season for figs. Then He said to the tree, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again.” And His disciples heard this statement.

As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots. Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”

“Have faith in God,” Jesus said to them. “Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Lessons from the Fig Tree: Fruitfulness and Faith

A Podcast

We will draw our lesson from Alistair Begg, from a sermon in October 2011, part of a series The Gospel According to Mark, Volume 5.

This study explores the symbolic meaning of Jesus cursing the fig tree in Mark 11 (also Matthew 21) and highlights themes of faith, fruitfulness, and prayer among believers.

Says Begg, “This is what we need to understand: God is able to do beyond all of your capacity to even imagine. You could even say, as it were, to this mountain, ‘Throw yourself in the sea,’ and it would actually be accomplished. It is a picture of the doing of the impossible. Jesus is encouraging his disciples to trust God with all that they need for doing God’s work.

The passage serves as a call for self-examination — asking whether one’s life reflects genuine faith and fruitfulness — while encouraging believers to trust God boldly through prayer.

Those who trust God for the right things in the right way may have confidence that from God they will always get the right response. ~Alistair Begg

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We often reach for the phone, the checkbook, the casserole when someone is in need, because doing something feels like being useful. Something practical, tangible, material. Helping is the right thing to do, but we often rush past prayer to get there. Our culture prizes accomplishing, and prayer rarely makes the to-do list. That gap between what we offer and what we actually do has a name. Which is pride.

The Psalmist saw it clearly: “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts” (Psalm 10:4). Ouch! That indictment lands closer to home than we’d like, doesn’t it?

When we bypass prayer to get straight to doing, we’re quietly assuming our hands matter more than His. But to followers of Christ, prayer is doing something. In fact, it’s doing the most important something, because it involves God directly in the situation.

Prayer isn’t the backup plan. It’s where every real plan begins. It isn’t a last resort, it’s the first action before anything else.

Scripture returns to this with familiar directives. “Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually” (1 Chronicles 16:11). “Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near” (Isaiah 55:6). “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). These aren’t suggestions for the spiritually advanced, they’re the everyday duty of every believer. Remember what Jesus said to Peter, “I have prayed for you” because He was asking the Father that his disciple’s faith would not fail. Nothing more needed done.

Hear this: to pray for someone is not the least we can do, it is the highest thing!

But this isn’t a call to fold our hands and stop there. What can we do for the Christians in Ecuador and Ethiopia? For the person who lost a job, is ill, or has fallen from faith? For the people of God? We pray first and then we act. The Lord goes to work in us, for us, and through us to bring the answer. Our sleeves still get rolled up, just not before our knees hit the floor.

The person who prays before they act doesn’t do less, what they do then is better.

In short, the most helpful thing you can offer anyone isn’t a solution but access to the One who holds all solutions. When we stop treating prayer as a preamble to the “real” help and recognize it as the real help, everything we do afterward carries a different weight — given freely, guided wisely, and grounded in something more than our own best effort.

We like to say: start on your knees, then roll up your sleeves.

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What if every blessing you’ve ever needed was already waiting — held back not by your circumstances, but by your silence?

In this episode, we explore from a Spurgeon sermon (The Result of Prayer) about how prayer isn’t just a spiritual habit — it’s the doorway that mercy walks through. Tracing the pattern from Scripture and lived experience, we look at why great blessings are almost always preceded by prayer, what it means that prayer is mercy’s shadow, and why the act of asking makes what God gives even more precious.

“Thus says the Lord God: I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them.” — Ezekiel 36:37

Something to sit with after you listen:

* Looking back, can you trace a blessing to a season of prayer that came just before it?

* Is there something you need right now that you haven’t yet brought to God?

* What would change if you truly believed the blessing was already on its way?

Let me know in the comments:

“Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw, Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith and love, Brings every blessing from above.” — C.H. Spurgeon

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Getting a group together for a prayer meeting can be a challenge.

Many people don't like to pray aloud with others, so they prefer to sit quietly. Others might come to a prayer meeting but don't really know much about prayer at all, so starting one can feel daunting.

One of the things I like to utilize with new prayer groups — groups filled with people who like the idea of praying but haven't spent a lot of time praying with others — is to introduce different acronyms or frameworks to help get things started. I pray the Scriptures, but sometimes having an acronym to help you remember several different areas to pray for is very helpful, especially in a group setting.

One of those acronyms I like to use is CHURCH, and these are the areas I like to introduce people to.

Church - pray for fellow believers in your church, especially pray for those who serve and minister to the members: the pastor, elders, teachers, singers, and staff. Pray that each would love the Lord, walk and live according to the word, grow in faith, be kept from the evil one, that make disciples and equip the saints.

Household - pray for those in your family, primarily your spouse, your children, your parents, and even distant family you rarely see. Pray that love would abound toward one another, children would honor their parents and obey them, that husbands love their wives, that wives respect their husbands, that peace be on the household.

Unsaved - pray for others you know who do not know the Lord. Pray they hear the Good News, understand the are sinners, in need of a Savior who is Jesus, that they repent and believe the Gospel and be transferred from the domain of darkness to the kingdom of Light, they know Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Revival - pray for the Word of God to run swiftly across the land and be glorified. Pray for the seed to be sown on good soil, for workers to be sent to the harvest field, for ears to hear and eyes to see, for open doors, that words may be given us to boldly proclaim the mystery of the Gospel.

Cares - cast your cares on the Lord, being anxious for nothing, but by prayer and petition with thanksgiving make your requests known to God. Pray for peace, for joy, for faith, for protection and provision, for grace and favor, that you might rest in full assurance of the Father’s love, under His Lordship and will.

Holy Spirit - pray for that good gift given by the Father, for how much more will He give to those that ask Him. Pray for His gifts, fruit, and wisdom. Pray to walk in step with the Spirit, to pray at all times in the Spirit, to be taught by the Spirit, to know his counsel and His comfort.

One of the ways you might use this in a small prayer group is to gather with five other people, so there are six of you total. Pass this sheet out to everyone in the prayer circle. You begin by praying for the C, then the person to your right or left can pray for the H, then someone else for the U, and so on — going around the circle that way.

Generally, these simple introductory prayers will inspire someone to continue going deeper in a particular area. Very often, the Holy Spirit wants to linger on one of those areas — or maybe more than one, taken one at a time — and go deeper. Under the letter U, for example, if you’re praying for the unsaved, you might begin naming specific people. Under the R, you might start naming places — cities, countries — and linger there for a while until you feel prompted to move on to the next letter.

Sometimes, when people have a place to begin, a clear starting point, they can go from there. It’s a little like walking into an amusement park with a map. There are so many places to go, things to see and do — rides, games, food — and you’re not sure where to start. So you start at the entry gate, you take a map, and you go to one thing, and then a different place, and the next. In a similar way, this framework can help navigate a circle of people through a time of prayer — getting everyone started, then moving to the next area when it seems right by the Spirit to do so.

I hope this serves as a helpful starting point for those just beginning a small prayer group.

May your prayer times be fruitful, Spirit-led, and a blessing to all who gather.

These prayers come from the scriptures in 1 and 2 Peter, and they reveal to us God’s own will for his people. After all, this is what Peter was writing to his letters recipients and said, do this, have this, know this. Then we also know and understand that this is what God has for us, that is, his people today. As then, also now.

And because there are scriptural prayers, we can count on these prayers because they come from his own word. This is his will, his testimony, his covenant.

And so in prayer, we can approach the throne of grace and ask this or that be done according to his own word.

Prayer Verses

1 Peter 4: 7-9

The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer. Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

1 Peter 5: 10, 11

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.

2 Peter 1: 2, 3

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2 Peter 3: 18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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This time we dive back into the article archives and still find fresh the prayer insights from E.M.Bounds. He explores the central role of prayer in the Christian life, emphasizing that prayer has been the peculiar distinction of all of God’s saints. This has been the secret of their power. The energy and the soul their work has been the closet.

Christians Need God’s Help

The need of help being so great, our natural inability to always judge kindly, justly, and truly, and to act the Golden Rule, so prayer is needed to enable us to act in all these things according to the Lord’s will. By prayer, we are able to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

God can help us. God is a Father. We need God’s good things to help us to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. We need Divine aid to act brotherly, wisely, and nobly, and to judge truly and charitably.

God’s help to do all these things in God’s way is secured by prayer. Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.

In other words, Bounds is saying we need help, God is our helper, and we need to continually ask him for his help. This is why we pray. Prayer enables believers to act according to the will and word of God, particularly in following the law of love and treating others with grace and kindness.

Continue In Prayer

In Romans 12, Paul writes “of Christian graces and duties, in the middle which we writes be constant in prayer, as if these rich and rare graces and unselfish duties had for their center and source the ability to pray.”

In Colossians, Paul uses the word again, Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. The word means: strong, to stay, hold fast, persevere and give constant attention to.

In Acts, chapter six, it is translated Give ourselves continually to prayer. It means giving marked attention to and deep concern to a thing.

Prayer, says Bounds, “is to be incessant, without intermission, with the spirit and the life always in the attitude of prayer. The knees may not be bended, the lips may not always be vocal, but the spirit is always in the act of prayer.”

Without intermission, and incessantly, describe “an opulence,” and “energy, and unabated and ceaseless strength and fullness of effort” on our part. This is a continual spiritual attitude even when not physically praying.

Christ The Intercessor

Jesus is the all powerful Intercessor, he is “the Christ of prayer, offering prayers and supplications, seeking silence and solitude and darkness that He might pray unheard and unwitnessd, save by heaven, in His wrestling agony, for man with God.”

Says Bounds, Jesus ever lives, “enthroned above at the Father’s right hand, there to pray for us!”

Then how truly does the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, represent Jesus as the Christ of Prayer! The Divine Comforter puts into human hearts the burden of earth’s almighty need, and makes the human lips give voice to its mute and unutterable groanings.

God’s Holy Spirit works within believers to align our prayers with God’s will, creating a divine partnership in prayer ministry. He quiets all the self-will, until “in will, in brain, and in heart and by mouth, we pray only what he prays: Making intercession for the saints, according to the will of God.”

This is the divine ministry of prayer.

It is our privilege to be partnered with Christ, joined with Him and serving in such a way. This prayer-partnership is the secret of the power of God’s people; is it the essential means by which believers receive divine help to live righteously, access God's power, and partner with Christ in interceding for others according to God's will.

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We usually think praise is singing to the Lord with songs, music and words, combined as hymns, or praise and worship. Indeed, the Psalms are set to musical tunes and instruments were utilized in praise.

Then David spoke to the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers accompanied by instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, by raising the voice with resounding joy. 1 Chronicles 15:16

Many churches sing from a hymnal during services, and we’ve grown used to “praise and worship music.”

But praise does not always need to be combined with music. Sometimes, often really, it is the overflow of our heart to Him. Perhaps in the car, or just coming home from work, or after the kids are asleep, it can hit us. After a trying time or difficulty, and we get relief, grace, healing or an answered prayer, we might utter a heartfelt “Praise the Lord!”

There are times during a prayer meeting we are undone by a greater awareness of Who He is, and what He has done for us, in us, and with us. This usually prompts our praise as we recognize this back to Him. Or, we see something in the Scriptures which hits us like lightning and we stop and praise for this fresh understanding, this realization of Truth anew.

Praise is our declaring the greatness of God to God himself.

And we praise Him for He is worthy of our praise! He inhabits the praises of His people, and we will forever give Him the glory due His name, joining the angels who sing now ‘round His throne.

When we praise Him, we are giving honor to the One worthy of honor. It is proclaiming the excellencies of the Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, Provider, Holy, Glorious, Awesome Maker of heaven and earth. Praising the Lord who is good and who’s mercies endure is to acknowledge his lordship over our lives.

We praise God because we owe Him this awe, reverence, respect, and humility.

Prayer, at it’s core, is us communicating to God.

This is a primary activity of our fellowship with Him in Christ. In prayer we often ask for things — for help, or blessings, or wisdom — or a new job, health, peace, etc. By prayer, we tell Him our hopes and cast on Him our cares, and we give thanks to Him in appreciation.

You see, prayer isn’t only asking for things, but also giving glory to whom it is due. When we pray “hallowed be your name,” we are asking the Lord Almighty to glorify his name and bring honor to it.

Says Barnes: The word "hallowed" means to render or pronounce holy. God's name is essentially holy; and the meaning of this petition is, "Let thy name be celebrated, venerated, and esteemed as holy everywhere, and receive from all people proper honor." It is thus the expression of a wish or desire, on the part of the worshiper, that the name of God, or that God Himself, should be held everywhere in proper veneration.*

So then praising is praying in that we tell God how great he is, and ask Him to glorify in us his name. This creates in us awareness of his majesty and authority, resulting in humble dependence on his sovereign will.

Consider that Jesus taught we should pray the Lord’s name be honored rightly, and we pray the he bring his Kingdom and will in us and around us. (Luke 11:2).

Many of the Psalms offer praises to the Lord. Look through Psalm 118 and we see the Lord:

Is good and his love endures forever; the LORD answered me and is my refuge; The LORD is on my side; for me among those who help me; is my strength and song; to be trusted more than man; the one who helps; who’s right hand is exalted and does valiantly; has disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death; answers me, and has become my salvation; has become the chief cornerstone; has made this day; is God and has given us his light; is our God.

In prayer, spend a good portion of time and attention to giving God praise!

Do people often ask you to pray for them?

If you’ve spent any amount of time is prayer circles, church groups, or even online, you’ll encounter opportunities to pray for people. There are always needs and problems too big for us to handle. Our praying brings God into those situations. Involving others in those prayers is one way our Lord uses to connect us with one another. He will use our willingness to pray to Him to bless them.

Why Do Others Ask For Prayer?

* They feel helpless - recognizing they are unable handle it ourselves

* They feel unworthy - to ask alone and our faith is weak

* They see in Scripture and are taught to pray for each other

Many times requests for prayer come to us in the form of a need someone has. This need is likely a physical need— such as health, or finances, or a job, etc. It is quite common for folks to make a request when facing a big problem (in marriage, with children, at work, etc), when there is a big decision to make, or an opportunity and they are hoping it will turn out in their favor.

You see, a person asking for prayer often is comforted just knowing someone is praying for them. In fact, I wonder how Peter felt when Jesus told him “I have prayed for you?”

A request for prayer is a “felt need” the person has. Perhaps there is sickness and a request is prayers for healing; they lost a job and request prayers for a new one; a child has trouble with school or the law and they request prayers for them.

Why Pray For Others?

Praying for others is important because it fulfills a New Testament command.

We are to pray for all people (1 Timothy 2:1). As we “carry each other’s burdens,” we “will fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).

Remember, the apostle Paul requested prayer for he and Timothy from the Corinthian church (2 Corinthians 1:11), and for prayer from believers in Ephesus (Ephesians 6:19).

Certainly we note that Jesus prayed for others—see Luke 22:32, and 22:40, and John 17:11 and 17:17 as examples.

Of course we respond by actually praying, and praying as requested. The felt need is what prompts a request, but that is not all we might pray for them. There is nothing wrong with casting these cares upon the Lord, for he cares for us,

Other times the request is less a need and more a want. We want a new job, we want a better something, we want a parking spot in the shade, we want _____. Our response is the same: we pray as requested, but again, there is more we can pray for them.

Three Prayers For The Requester

First, pray as we are asked — that is, for the job, the health, the wayward teen, the difficult circumstances would resolve (i.e. at home or at work); pray for a favorable outcome that the requester seeks. These are prayers for material blessings.

Secondly, pray from the Scriptures. As examples: Ask for grace and peace be with them; ask for wisdom from above; may they be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might; for the Lord to supply what is lacking in their faith; for help in unbelief; that they stand firm in all the will of God and be mature in the Lord; that they know the fullness of the love of God; to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man; that they be sanctified completely, kept spirit, soul and body, and preserved blameless; that they be filled with all joy and peace in believing, etc.

These are prayers for spiritual blessings; they are all according to the Word and the Father’s will—prayers that find a yes in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 1:20).

Thirdly, that the Lord’s will be done—what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2). This is especially so when the request is more of a want than a need. How many times does the Lord answer our prayers differently than we asked or expected? For many of us, we might say all the time! Remember, the Lord is not obligated to respond to give us exactly what we ask, but He will answer for our good and for His glory.

A Bonus Prayer

Additionally, very often the request is for one who may not know the Lord, and we pray for their salvation. We pray they hear the good news of the Gospel and respond; that they fall under the conviction the Holy Spirit and repent and believe; that they become aware of their sins and believe they need Jesus and cry for his mercy; that they be transferred from the domain of darkness in to the light of Jesus.

In short: Intercessory prayer connects believers with one another, brings God into difficult situations, and provides comfort to those requesting prayer while fulfilling biblical commands to carry each other's burdens.

Pray for me as I pray for you.

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