Prayer 2021 - August 20 - What Peter Had to Say About Prayer pt 1

Scripture For Today:

Luke 9:28

About eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John and James with Him and went up onto a mountain to pray.”

What Peter Had to Say About Prayer pt 1

We have been studying what the Apostle James had to say about prayer. Now, we are going to shift over to anther disciple, Peter, to see what he has to say about prayer. Amen!

Let’s look at 1 Peter 3:7:

“Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers are not hindered.”

Of course, Peter is talking here about a husband and wife who are both saved because he said, “being HEIRS together of the grace of life.” Amen!

This verse applies to married couples who are both born again. This verse is telling us that a husband or wife can HINDER their own prayer life!

So, I guess you could say, what Peter is trying to get across to us is “Don’t Hinder Your Own Prayers!”  Amen!

I believe we all know that a saved husband and wife can either help or hinder one another spiritually. They can pull together or they can pull apart. So Peter, in this scripture, gives both, husband and wives some clear instructions.

In verse 3, he starts off saying, “Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any is not obeying the Word (talking about the Word of God), they also may, without the Word, be won by the conversation of the wives.”

The word “conversation” here in this verse means their “manner of life or conduct.” Peter suggests that one’s Godly conduct or behavior is a way of winning folks to the Lord without necessarily preaching at them all of the time. Amen!

I can attest to this fact in my own life.

My wife was born again almost four years before I was. She kept after me to go to church with her, etc. But I usually did not go. I would drive her and the kids to church, drop them off and go to the gym. On a rare occasion, like most heathens, I would attend church at Christmas or Easter. But that was about it.

But she continued to pray for me. She was always there for me. Even though I was raised as a Lutheran by loving grandparents, I was under the false impression that I was already born again. The devil had me trapped in a lie and I was deceived.

In fact, if you would’ve looked up the word “heathen” in the dictionary back then, it probably would’ve had my picture next to the word. That’s how lost I was and did not even know it.

But, my wife kept praying. Despite all I could do or act or say to the contrary – she kept on praying! Thank God for a loving wife that is born again and saved. 

Four years later, I was on the verge of taking my own life when I received the Lord as my Savior – and my entire perspective on EVERYTHING changed!  In an instant – I realized I had been deceived about my salvation. But that night, January 25^th 1992 at 1135pm ET in a little empty apartment in Columbus, GA – I was born again – FOR SURE!  Amen!

You’ve probably heard my testimony before so I will not take the time to go through it here – but the first person I wanted to share this with first was my wife! Amen!

She had been praying for me all those years – and the Lord heard her prayers. Amen! Glory to God! 

I want to pray for YOU right now as well.

Let’s Pray!

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