Acts – refers to the Acts of the Holy Spirit

-Acts happened because of prayer..

1. PRAYER IS ADDRESSING SOMEONE – Acts 1:14

-this speaks who to pray to – the Father and Jesus

-we pray to the one true and living God

                  a. Paul comes to Athens – Acts 17:16-25,28-30,32-34

-a place of idolatry

-Paul went against the culture

vs 1-2 – Paul shares with the believers

v 18 – Paul defended the gospel

Epicureans – they believed in many gods…believed in evolution

Stoics – religious and moral…believed everyone was a child of God

***Only Christians are children of God

2. PRAYER STOPS THE LORD IN HIS TRACKS – Acts 4:23-31

v31 – when they prayed – when we pray the Lord moves

-the church prayed and got God’s attention (v31 – 3 things happened)

-prayer stops the Lord in His tracks

Example:  Matthew 20:29-34

a. there are two blind men – physically and spiritually blind – not saved

b. the religious did not like the noise

c. Crying out prayer stopped Jesus in His tracks – v32

-Lets have the Lord stop and stay at CCWC and NPR and the Tampa Bay area by the body of Christ crying out to the Lord in prayer…….

3. PRAYER MUST BE CONSTANT – Acts 12:5, 12-17

  The word CONSTANT refers to 3 things:

1. CONSTANT PRAYER IS CORPORATE PRAYER – v5

-constant prayer was made by the church

-personal vs corporate prayer

-the enemy will try to stop you from praying

-it is a tug of war

2. CONSTANT PRAYER IS FERVENT PRAYER – V5

CONSTANT – refers to fervent/burning/fiery/red hot/passionate

-this is alive prayer…believing and expecting prayer

3. CONSTANT PRAYER MAKES THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE – vs5-11

-this seemed like an impossible situation to be solved

-the church prayed and the Lord moved