Corporate Prayer

Prayer
Prayer changes things
My (Father’s) house will be called a house of prayer
Philippians 4:6
James 5:15
Ephesians 6:18
Luke 6:12
Prayer is one of our values at Crossroads and it’s amazing when the body come together in corporate prayer. Our times of prayer and Fasting are wonderful. More and more people are joining us as they feel the need to pray for the church, the community and the wider body of believers.

As Terry Virgo says in his book “A People Prepared”:

“ My (Father’s) house will be called a house of prayer” (Matthew 21:13). A biblical church will have a strong prayer emphasis. The early church devoted itself to prayer. Jesus modeled a life full of prayer and his disciples tried to emulate him. Churches must do the same. Evangelical churches in the UK have always had their regular prayer meetings. Many of the so-called ‘new churches’ have replaced that with important house-group meetings, but this must not mean the abandoning of prayer!

Corporate prayer is fundamental to the success of the local church. Through fervent believing prayer we affect local government decisions, promote godliness and righteousness in schools and bring about effective evangelistic breakthrough in our neighbourhood.

Prayer is a great weapon. Our prayer meetings should be the most important gatherings of the week, especially if we take spiritual warfare seriously. The local church is a body of disciples, an army at its best when its members pray fervently together. You may say, “I rarely go to the prayer meeting. My weekly schedule is too full.’ If that is so, you must make radical changes! Prayer is the life-blood of the biblical church. If you do not take part in the regular corporate prayer life of your church, I urge you to change your programme and make it a top priority.”
At Crossroads, we take corporate prayer very seriously as it definitely is the “life-blood of the biblical church.”