For
your own sake and for the sake of the world, Jesus wants you to prayer
regularly with other believers. Jesus doesn't have some narcissistic need to be
included in your daily routine, but he and the other persons of the Godhead
have so shaped the world that God's people are invited to approach The Control
Room of Creation, Heaven, in prayer. Listen to the words of Jesus.
Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will
be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they
ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For there two or
three gather in my name, there I am with them (Matthew 18.18-20, NIV).
More
than once I have heard N.T. Wright assert that "according to Jesus, heaven
is earth's control room." What's more, Jesus tells us in Matthew 18 that
heaven and earth come together in him and heaven responds to the requests of
those who have gathered.
Jesus
is with us when we gather on Wednesdays to ask things of Jesus' Father in
heaven. He is with us in a way he is not with you in your "prayer
closet." So please, for your own sake and for the good of the world,
gather with other believers to agree on earth together and "it will be
done for you by Jesus' Father in heaven."
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