“IF TWO OR THREE OF YOU AGREE ON EARTH CONCERNING ANYTHING THAT THEY ASK, IT WILL BE DONE FOR THEM BY MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.” —MATTHEW 18:19
When you pray personally and privately, it is very powerful. But when we come together in agreement with even just one or two others, we have exponential power, a nuclear-type force that has a tremendous effect on our world.
We come together in Jesus’ name, in agreement with Him. The Greek word for “agree” is a very special word that means to symphonize, to be harmonious. When a symphony of many instruments plays the same song, set to the same key, the harmony is powerful. Its beauty is exponential.
So the Lord is saying to us, “I want you to pray not just alone but in twos or threes; to be in agreement with My Father’s desires, in alignment with His Word.”
Are we making full use of this Kingdom resource?
Our prayers cause a transaction in the spiritual realm, which produces results in the physical. Leviticus 26:8 tells us what happens when we align ourselves with God’s heart: “Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.”
Wow. How powerful is that? So few can make such a difference!
Families can come together in prayer to shift situations. Maybe they have a prodigal son or daughter, and Mom and Dad come together in agreement. Churches can come together in agreement and alignment and shift their community. A whole state of Christians, such as the initiative our church supported, Forty Days of Hope for California, can pray and fast in agreement to change the spiritual atmosphere and bring revival.
These are the prayers that impact a generation.
There is real exponential power in prayers of agreement. We have the power…we need to exercise it. “Much of our prayer is just asking God to bless some folks that are ill, and to keep us plugging along. But prayer is not merely prattle: it is warfare.” —Alan Redpath
