United Prayer

United Prayer

Matt. 18:18-20 gives us a picture of united prayer.
“What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
This scripture is amazing. “Where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I.”
That would be an executive meeting with the Master.
We come together to do business, sitting in His presence, planning, discussing and then praying, for He said, “If two of you shall agree.”
The group may be very small, just a husband and wife, but if they agree as touching anything they shall ask, it shall become. This is a challenge.
Every believer should find an agreer, someone who could join with him in prayer.
We should lay out a program of prayer, making a list of subjects and of people to lay intelligently before the Father.
John 15:7-8 “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”
If we are Born Again, we do abide in Him.
If His Word abides in us in the measure that it governs our lives, in the measure that we act upon it.
The problem of faith does not enter prayer.
It is supposed that those who abide in Him have faith.
It took faith to get into the family.
We are in the family now, and it is not a problem of faith.
It is a problem of the Word abiding in us.
If we are living the Word, then when we come to pray, that Word dwells in us so richly it will become His Word on our lips.
It will be as the lather’s Words on the Master’s lips.

How to Pray

John 15:16 “Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it you.”
Prayer here is addressed to the Father in Jesus’ Name. This is divine order.
This statement has enwrapped within it the ability to bring God into our circumstances, into our finances or whatever the need may be in our homes, in our business, or in our nation.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my Name, He will give it you.”
We are not praying to Jesus. We are praying to the Father in the Name of Jesus.
Jesus really gives us the power of attorney. That means that what Jesus can do, we can do.
That means that Jesus’ Name gives us the right to go into His presence and see our prayers answered.
Jesus backs our prayer. He makes it good.
John 16:23-24 “In that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it you in my name. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.”
We are to pray to the Father in Jesus’ Name.
We can fellowship and talk things over with the Master, but when it comes to prayer based on legal grounds, then it is directed to the Father, in Jesus’ Name.
Nothing is impossible here.
We will not ask anything of the Father that is out of His will if we are walking with Him.
The word “faith” does not occur in this connection.
We had faith to come into the family; now everything that Jesus did belongs to us.
We are taking advantage of it.
We are acting the part of a child of God.
I John 5:14-15 “And this is the boldness which we have toward Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of Him.”

It Is The Father’s Will

The believer, walking in fellowship with the Word, will never ask for anything outside of the Father’s will.
We need not worry about that.
We know that saving the lost is in His will, for to this end Jesus died.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

We know that healing the sick is in His will, Christ bore our infirmities and carried our pains.
I Peter 2:24 “Who His own self hare our sins in His body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed.”
We know praying for finances to meet obligations is His will.
Phil. 4:19 “And my God shall supply every need of yours.”
Practically everything is covered in these points.
We can pray for the ministers that they will speak in the power of the Spirit.
We can pray for the lost in heathen lands.
All this is in His will.
With what boldness we should come to Him.
Matt. 19:26 “But with God all things are possible.”
We are coming to Him who has all ability.
Speaking to the Jews He said in Matt, 21:22 “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”
Mark 11:24 “Therefore I say unto you, all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.”
Here is faith thanking Him for a thing that he already possesses which has not yet materialized, but he knows that it is his.
Mark 9:23 “All things are possible to him that believeth.”
All things are possible to the man who cooperates with the Lord, who fellowships with the Lord, who is a co-laborer with the Lord.