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The Lord once showed me in a dream the tremendous power made available when we pray. In the dream I pulled 7 train carts with a bicycle and realized the amazing power was released by the bicycle.

Someone in the dream explained to me that the bicycle represents our prayers and the 7 train carts represents the church as in Revelation. At first I still did not understand the meaning but then realized that prayer is the power that mobilize the church. Without prayer the church as the body of Christ is inactive and without momentum.

 The importance of prayer in evangelism cannot be overrated. Prayer is the preparation not so much for the evangelist but more for the those receiving the message. Prayer is mobilizing the ministering angels sent by God to prepare the hearts of people as in Hebrew 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

In the dream Lord in His love tried to tell me that prayer is the power that prepare the hearts of people so to enable them to receive the Word of God as in Matthew 13:23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” As we pray unto the Lord to prepare the hearts of the unsaved, He, the Lord who is in control of the harvest, sends the ministering Angels to prepare a receiving hearts of those who will hear and receive the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ as in Matthew 13:23 “ Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.”

Comparing cycling to prayer, I realized that cycling can be tiresome like prayer. However with an e-bike you are enabled to cycle effortless provided the battery is fully charge. Likewise, the power behind prayer is God’s perfect Word, remember that Jesus Christ is the Word that became flesh and He said in Matthew 11:28-30 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

The Word

As we read God’s Word we must remember that Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath, He is our rest, for in Him we can be at rest, with our hope no more vested in our own inabilities but vested in Him and His ability to do the impossible. It is like Peter in Luke 5:4-6 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.

When we consider God’s Word. Jesus Christ and His authority and react there upon, then we become partakers in His venture and we no longer need to carry the burden on ourselves we just do according to God’s Word, and leave the rest to Him.

Consider this inspiring true story of a widow who had no food and prayed to the Lord. The Lord then instructed her to write her needs on a piece of paper and present it to the grocer. So the women did so. The grocer who was not a believer told her that she must put the paper on the one end of the scale and take what ever balanced the scale. As she put the paper on the scale, without realizing, it broke exactly and dropped down to the side of the paper. As she started loading on the other side of the scale it has no effect on the balance of the scale. This was to the amazement of the grocer and the amusement of another customer. The grocer stopped her, annoyed he opened the written piece of paper. The note said, Lord you know my needs. The amused customer offered to pay all the food the women placed on the scale. This true story is just an example of prayer and faithful obedience, just like with Peter. We can partake in God’s work as partners that have no responsibility apart from obedience, trusting not in ourselves but in God.

Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.


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