Jesus, Our Example Of Prayer

After a very busy, draining day of ministry, Jesus rose up very early for a time with the Father in prayer. Jesus sets the example for prayer. We know that He frequently spent time in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. Before choosing His first ‘ministry team’ He...

Thy Face, Lord, Will I Seek

A couple weeks ago we had our fall week of prayer here at Koinonia. These weeks of prayer are a time when we set nearly every other area of ministry aside and go before our precious Lord and seek His face and will for our lives and church family. It is no coincidence...

Guidance Through Prayer

If Paul was left to minister according to his own understanding, I doubt he would have been as fruitful as he was. Paul was convinced that if anybody could reach his fellow Jews, it was he. After all he had the top notch Rabbinic Scholar as his mentor. Nobody could...

Prayer Precedes Pentecost

As we read in Acts 1, to wait for the “power from on high”, the disciples prayed. The lesson here is that the praying person or church is the one that walks in the power of the Holy Spirit. When told to wait for the promise of the Spirit they prayed. The most...

The Priority of Prayer

Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; As the apostle Paul is coming to the close of this letter to the body of believers in Colosse, he urges them to make prayer a priority in their personal and corporate lives. Their pastor was a...

Praying Without Ceasing

One of the greatest privileges that a child of God has is the gift of prayer. After the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven, we read in the book of Acts that there were 120 disciples gathered together for ten days praying. The Scriptures declare that “These all...