Balance Prayer and Ministry - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 Hello, dear brothers and sisters church planters, this is our podcast "Multiply". This is your servant, Pastor Douti Claude, VCP director. I would like to encourage you, to thank you, for all these 90 days of prayer fasting and church planting since July, which we started together, in which we embedded together, and we are seeing photos, testimonies, people who come together, who are always in prayer for the glory of God. God bless you all.

I want to talk today to you about Balance your prayer and ministry. The Balance of prayer and ministry is very important.

As we pray, we must have specific topics, and as we pray for those topics, as you can see that Pastor Dean always sends out prayer topics every day. As we pray, we must see the results, and we must compare what God is doing through our prayers to our ministry. The balance of prayer and ministry increases our faith. The balance of prayer and ministry allows us to minister with confidence. If we look at the example of the apostles in Acts chapter 4 starting from verse 29, the apostles were in trouble and they prayed to God, and they ended up saying to God this: “And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak the word, by stretching forth your hand to do healings, signs and wonders in the name of your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed the place where they were assembled together trembling, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. That is what God does. They prayed in their difficulty, and automatically, without a moment's delay, God sent down his power in their midst to prove his existence, to prove that he is with them. The Holy Ghost filled them all, and the fear that they had of the rulers, the fear that they had of the opposers of the gospel, they were cheered up, they were given even more strength and boldness in the preaching of the gospel.

 

What would I like to tell you? Since you have been praying, what are the testimonies that you have encountered, the answers to your prayers? What will encourage you in your ministry is the answers to your prayers. I want to tell you by passing, in my ministry I have experienced many things. There was at times when we woke up in the morning, there was nothing to eat, there was not even breakfast. After the morning devotion with my wife and children, as soon as I went out the door, someone was waiting with exactly what was missing in the house. And many times, we have experienced these things in our ministry, through prayer. To add to that, I listened to and read a book, the heroes of faith and Georges Müller who had fed thousands of orphans, had to say that he woke up several times, that there was not even a piece of bread to give to the orphans. But he was never worried. Afterwards, he gathered his orphans, they prayed and barely one day they finished praying, and there was nothing and he saw someone at the end of their morning prayer, a van that came filled with bread for the orphans. So, brothers and sisters, this encourages the ministry.

There must be this balance of prayer in our lives. What does prayer give you? What are the results that prayer produces? The apostle Paul exhorted the Thessalonians to pray without ceasing. He exhorts the church to pray without ceasing. Why? Prayers have effects. The effect of prayer, the answering of prayer gives us faith, allows us to move forward in our ministry with faith, with assurance, knowing that God always answers our prayers.

This is to tell you that in the 90 days of fasting, prayer and Church planting, in all our prayers, pray with faith and let us each day give our testimonies of answers that we receive from God. Brothers and Sisters, I thank you. I encourage you to continue in prayer and exercising your ministry and you will see great testimonies will occur and this will communicate to you more faith in your ministry.

Balance your prayer and ministry. Be blessed. This is multiply.

 

Shalom.