A Call to Prayer
Eph. 6.18 … Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.
Our nation and the world is caught in the midst of a pandemic crisis that has lasted longer than most of us envisioned when it began. The pandemic has brough a lot of uncertainty and grief to individuals, families, churches and church organizations. The crisis has effected every part of our lives for over a year. In talking to people, I have discovered that the scientists, the doctors, the government nor the church seems to know when it will all end. However, as people of God, we must realize that we are not helpless or hopeless in the matter. God has given His people an avenue to deal with the pestilence that comes upon the world. God has given the church a powerful weapon called prayer which empowers believers to deal with the psychological, physical, political, social, financial, and religious trauma that the pandemic has released within our lives. Prayer is an avenue the church can use to help bring an end to the pandemic crisis.
Through spiritual meditation and prayer the church can release the expectations of God into the world and change the atmosphere according to the will of God. Through prayer, believers are able to engage the presence, power, prosperity, and providence of God into the crisis that we are experiencing. Rather than allowing the crisis to keep dictating our life experiences, we need to rise up and engage the power of God in prayer to overcome the crisis. By engaging the power of God, the church can negate, nullify, neutralize and even dispels the natural and spiritual forces that are empowering the pandemic crisis.
Dr. Martin Luther King stated that “trying to be a Christian without prayer is like trying to live without breathing.” Therefore, the church needs to release the breath of God that is within believers into the atmosphere of the crisis. God has informed us in his word that by coming together, touching and agreeing in prayer, it would cause his presence to manifest within our situations (Matt. 18.18-20). Therefore, we are being summoned as a church to come together and pray during our Connectional Day of Prayer. Let’s join hearts, minds, and spirits with the Bishop Sarah Francis Davis Covenant Keepers on April 13, 2021 to engage the power of God in overcoming this crisis and all the grief that has come with it. Together in prayer, we can make a difference and release the manifestation of God’s healing in the land.
