Pray and Associate!

Prayer guides you to Godly Association!

By Abraham Israel

• Connect to the man with the vision (Prov 29:18).


• Have the unity of the Spirit and Co-operate with the vision (Eph 4:3-6). Ex: 4 bulls.


• Make the vision of your church as your mission [the body of Christ has only one corporate vision (Mark 16:15)].


• Always have one purpose and one aim corporately and daily pray for the fulfillment of it in due time (Amos 3:3; Acts 1:14, 2:42; 4:24).

The three p’s to consider in Godly Association are,

a) Pray (Phil 4:6).

i. Prayer and supplication + thanksgiving.

ii. Peace will guard your minds.

iii. Here in Phil 4:6, the Greek word used for supplication is ‘de'-ā-sēs’ which means need, indigence, want, privation, penury, a seeking, asking, entreating, entreaty to God or to man.

iv. To supplicate means beg, plead, beseech, implore, entreat and pray Ex: (Daniel 9:2, 3; Nehemiah 1:4-11; Ps 119:170).

v. Supplication means praying through the Spirit of Supplication and it is the grace that empowers us to supplicate (Zech 12:10).

vi. The more we receive this grace, the more we can be able to pray through, until we see something happen in the natural realm from the Spiritual realm (Eph 1:3; Daniel 9:2-3; 10:12-14; Matt 16:16-20).

vii. PUSH P-Pray, U-Until, S-Something, H-Happens.

b) Participate (John 4:35).

i. “Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes [the call] and look at the fields [the vision], for they are already white for harvest [the challenge]!” (John 4:35).

ii. See things beyond what you see with your physical in to the Spiritual.

iii. Always be focused on the corporate vision and its challenge.

c) Persevere

i. To persevere is to continue doing or trying something in a determined way inspite of difficulties.

ii. Tribulation produces perseverance (Rom 5:3).

iii. Perseverance, character and character, hope.

iv. Hope [which is the anchor of the soul] enters in to God’s presence (Heb 6:19).