Corporate prayer is many things. As much as it is a petition, it is really a statement. It is a statement to God that only He can build His church. Failing to have a corporate prayer meeting is also a statement. It is a statement to the opposite effect, that we do not need God to build the church. A corporate prayer meeting is a sworn declaration that He is everything and that our power is nothing. Not having a corporate prayer meeting is also a sworn declaration, that He is nothing and that our power is everything.
Absent corporate prayer and your church is man-made. Pray corporately and your church will be God-made.
Every church needs a healthy dose of collective desperation. The collective desperation to see God's purposes prevail is what is known as the corporate prayer meeting. The united appeal Godward for God's intervention into the status quo will sound as the corporate prayer meeting. The church will never move forward if she is not gathering to cry out to the living God, itself a statement that He is great and our power is nothing.
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