Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 3 March 2005 — Page 42
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LOCAL CHURCHES
Holy Ghost Temple Church of God in Christ 1518 E. 17th St.
Sunday School • 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship • 11:30 a.m. Tuesday Bible Study • 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer • 6:00 p.m. Friday Worship • 7:30 p.m.
Phone: 282-9158
Pastor Jerry D. Bumpus
The Spiritual Israel Church And It’s Army 915 E. Memorial Dr. Muncie, IN Sunday School • 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship • 11:00 a.m. Tuesday Bible Study • 7:00 p.m. Church: 288-3264 Home: 260-745-5353 Ex. 4:22 Israel is my son even my first bom
Spirit And Truth Ministry 400 E. North St. Muncie, IN Sunday School • 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship • 11:30 a.m. Thursday Bible Study • 6:30 p.m.
Phone: 215-1285
Pastor Beverly Ann Plummer
The New Testament Christian Ministries 6207 W. Taylor Rd. at Hoffer Sunday Bible Study • 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship •11:00 a.m. Tuesday Bible Study • 7:00 p.m. Friday Prayer Service • 7:00 p.m.
Phone: 282-7666
My Father’s House Apostlic Church 1208 E. Centennial Ave. Sunday School • 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Service • 11:30 a.m. Tuesday Prayer • 7:00 p.m. Thursday Bible Study • 7:00 p.m.
Phone: 287-9221 • Home: 282-3224 Pastor Mic hael w. Boyd
Fig Tree Ministries
219 W. Main
Muncie, IN
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Sunday Morning Worship • 10:00 a.m.
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Wednesday Prayer • 7:00 p.m.
Phone: 281-1636
Home: 759-7872
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Pastor Kay Morehouse
New Kingdom Builders 326 W. Charles Sunday School • 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship • 11:30 a.m. Tuesday Bible Study • 6:30 p.m. Friday Praise and Worship • 6:30 p.m.
Phone: 286-0825 Home: 288-5205
Unitarian Universalist Church 4800 W. Bradford Dr. (off Morrison Rd.) Sunday Services • 10:45 a.m. Adult discussion • 9:30 Monthly Sunday young adult lunches Write us at uuchurch.hotmail.com Phone us at 765-288-9561 Look us up at hUp.//uuchurch.uwctl.org/
Power of Pure Unity and
Reconciliation
An Apostolic Prophetic Ministry
Commissioned to go beyond the
Veil
Services Held
Sunday and Monday 10:00 a.m.
Evening 6:00 p.m.
Phone: 214-1065 1304 1/2 Broadway
Continued from Page 39 To Christ Jesus, prayer occupied no secondary place, but was exacting a paramount, a necessity, a life, the satisfying of a restless yearning, and a preparation for heavy responsibilities. Present trials, future glory, the history of His church, and the struggles and perils of His disciples in all time - and to the very end of time - these things were born and shaped by His praying, mixed with fasting. He who is our example, this was His pattern, He spent many whole nights in prayer, and had His habitual place in which to pray. Here is our need! We cannot expect revivals without prayer - much prayer, burdened prayer, mixed with fasting. I know it is easier to organize than to agonize; easier to feast than to fast; and eas-
ier to plan that to pray, but these are not our weapons. The mightiest weapon of the soldiers of Jesus Christ is prayer and fasting. I don’t believe there is a situation too difficult, a case too hard, or a church too dead, for prayer to help. If we will become desperate enough about it, God will give us the victory and a real heavensent, earth-shaking, hell-dis-turbing revival! Prayer Plans Prayer plans can be devised to meet the individual local situation. Different working hours and various local situations make it impossible to make one plan work in every place. But there is some plan that will work for you. Here are some of the plans that I have found to be effective: 1. A chain of prayer, with people pledged to pray in three-hour, two-hour or one-
hour shifts around the clock. 2. Calling on the people for at least one day a week fasting, and requesting them to pray at least one hour a day. 3. Special commitments of coming by the church at any time they can, praying threehour season of pray at least one hour a day. 4. All nights of prayer. 5. Half-nights of prayer. 6. Early morning prayer meetings at church. 7. Group prayer meetings; such as all men, all women, all young people, or a Sunday school class. 8. Noon-day prayer meetings. 9. Pre-service prayer meetings. 10. A specified time, such as six in the morning, when everybody "meets at the throne" simultaneously. (This is effective where the people are scattered, and find it difficult to meet at the
church.) 11. "Breakthrough" prayer meetings when one stays until he prays through, however long it takes. The Preacher Must Lead There is no need to say that the people won’t pray, if we have not challenged them with definite prayer plans. It is not enough to say, in a general sort of way, that we want everybody to pray. But as leaders, we must lead our people in something definite and specific. We have talked about prayer, and said that we know this is the only way to have revivals, but, oh, church of the Living God, we are so spiritually lazy when it comes to actually doing it! The time has come - the preachers must lead the people to their knees. If we are to have praying churches, we must be praying preachers. We cannot expect
to lead the people where we have not been ourselves...To our knees, preachers, to our knees! We must not do any less in the face of crying need. It is "Revise or Die!" God has given us the keys to determine which it will be. Revivals are not bom in a hurry. We must wait on the Lord - we must tarry for power - and, as the early church, we must "continue in prayer." This is the pattern. We can still have revivals! The skies are full of revival, ready to be poured out! Let’s pray, and pay the price! Let’s believe God. Let’s preach it to our people until they believe God and follow the perfect example. Let’s come out of the trenches and go into the battle. We are on the winning side. Up! Thy day is upon us. Revivals are possible!