Prayer

Jesus told the people in the temple area that; “My house will be called a house of prayer”.  Isaiah 56:7 “these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

If we desire God’s presence in our lives, if we desire God’s presence in our worship services then we must be people of prayer and our church must be a house of prayer. After Jesus cleansed the temple, he began healing the blind and the lame in the temple courtyard. Children began shouting praises to God in the temple area. If our church is to be a place of life, healing, joy and praise it must be a house of prayer.

Several years ago we began a new prayer ministry for our church family and our church ministries called, The Spring Hills Prayer Force. There are great forces at work around us in our world, in Licking County and in Granville – forces that bring deception, perversion, despair and death.  We came to realize that to overcome these forces around us we needed to pray for the spiritual forces of God to be released in Granville and in Licking County and in the nations. We now have over two hundred people who have committed themselves to prayer each day for the needs in our church family and in our county and in the world.  We are seeing people’s lives changed, ministries becoming more fruitful and sickness healed. Praise God for His presence and for the power He has to touch and transform lives.

---Pastor Emeritus Jeff Pound

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