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The
Prayer of Agreement
by
Carolyn Savelle
I've
always loved beautiful landscaping and flower gardens. Especially
coming from the south where it abounds in large quantities of trees and
azaleas and fern growing everywhere.
When we moved to Fort Worth, Texas it was prairie and mesquite trees. You
had to believe God for a single tree! When the Lord gave us our land and
buildings for the ministry, it was such a desire of my heart for the
grounds to look beautiful all the time, and to be able to change the
flowers out in all the beds seasonally.
I would go to the office and request a certain amount of money to buy
landscaping and bedding plants, but never received enough to make it look
completed. Many times I would give all the personal finances I could to
help with the purchase of landscaping for the ministry - using it as seed
that one day we would have enough. But we still never had quite enough.
A couple of years ago, my friend, Carmen O'Neill, and I and were on our
way back from the garden center having purchased what we could on our
limited budget. I was so disheartened because we have so many acres to
landscape and only a fraction of what we needed to do it with - once again
not enough.
I said to my friend, "I'm tired of this! I want you to agree with me
in prayer. I'm asking God to either speak to someone to give to this
ministry and designate the gift for landscaping, or either speak to
someone to give me the flowers that we need." So, we came into
agreement right there in the ministry truck driving home.
This past September our prayer of agreement came to pass! We received a
phone call from two ladies who own greenhouses. They wanted to bless the
ministry and give the first fruits of their business! Hallelujah! They
gave us 1,200 flats of pansies and various other annuals. It actually came
to a place where I cried, "It's enough!"
I was even able to give and bless other ministries and people with the
over abundance that I had. I've walked around for months still in a daze
at how wonderful God is. He answered my prayer in a way that I think is
more miraculous than if the money had been given to the ministry. He gave
me the very flowers I asked Him for and that we agreed on.
Let's look at the prayer of agreement as Jesus taught in Matthew 18:19,20.
"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as
touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my
Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am I in the midst of them."
Don't put any limitations on that scripture - Jesus didn't. In order for
Matthew 18:19,20 to work, there just needs to be two of us to agree and we
have to be on the earth. That fits us. We qualify. Then all we have to do
is agree in line with God's Word as touching any thing that we shall ask
and the Bible says it shall be granted us.
Jesus is saying that wherever there are two people who are agreeing in
prayer, He is right there to make it happen. Heaven will back us up. You
may be mighty in prayer alone, but you can be mightier with someone
joining you. There doesn't have to be a great number of people for the
prayer of agreement to work. A husband and wife can become mighty partners
in prayer.
I heard Brother Oral Roberts say that we need to get our minds off of the
situation and visualize Jesus actually standing in the midst of us. If
Jesus was standing there in the flesh, what would you do? You'd shout and
praise God and jump up and down, wouldn't you? You would also feel pretty
confident that it was done because Jesus was present. Well, that's the way
it is in the spirit realm. Jesus is right there in your midst listening to
your request and ready to bring it to pass.
I have had so many prayer requests answered by following Matthew 18:19
using the prayer of agreement. It is so important that you find someone of
like precious faith to pray with, pray for and call upon to get into
agreement with you for certain needs or desires in your life.
God's Word works, and the prayer of agreement will work for you and for
any Believer who will dare believe it and act on it! |
