28 Praying To Get Results
released. "And being let go, they went to their own company,
and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto
them...."
It was good to be among friends who knew how to pray!
If this company of believers had been like some people in
churches today, they would have appointed a committee to make
some kind of deal whereby they could get along together. After
all, these chief priests and elders were religious people, too.
Although they didn't accept Jesus as Messiah, they believed in
the same God, in prayer, and in going to the Temple.
But this company of believers didn't appoint any committee;
they didn't make any deals. They "lifted up their voice to God
with one accord." There's power in united prayer.
Coming from different church backgrounds, sometimes
we're used to doing things a certain way. Sometimes we think
the way we've always done them is the way they ought to be
done. I was raised in a Southern Baptist church and was not
accustomed to hearing people pray out loud in united prayer.
Usually in our church, an individual led in prayer, but we never
lifted our voices as a congregation.
My grandmother, however, had been saved many years
before in an old-fashioned Methodist Campmeeting, so she was
accustomed to hearing people pray out loud.
Later, when some Full Gospel people came to our town and
put up a tent, my grandmother went to their meetings. She told
me I should go, too. I already had been saved and healed,
although I never had heard the name "Full Gospel" before.
I stopped by one night and stood outside the tent listening to
the message. The next week I went by and went inside the tent
for the whole service. After the minister had preached, he came
back through the crowd, shaking hands with people and asking if
they were Christians. Practically everyone he talked to went to
the altar. He asked me if I were a Christian. I told him I was a
minister. He told me to go to the altar and pray because it