Acts 10:1-8
“He
and all his family were devout and God fearing, he gave generously to those in
need and prayed regularly” v 2.
We go a step further in
our family prayer series, before we round up it up with the next post by His grace. The
suggestion in part IV is to formulate a family prayer mission statement, our praying
should focus on our mission statement. Remember some couples of weeks back, we
shared the issue of vision and mission statement together and through the
scripture, we agreed that without a vision/mission statement people perish,
people are stagnant or have no direction at all. Like said yesterday that as a
family there is need to have or know the purpose and plan of God for our
family.
The statement could be written
or not, but it gives your family direction. For Cornelius, he and his family
knew they were meant to help the poor and pray fervently. They never used their
position as a prominent military family to intimidate people. Their statement
was something like this, “pray and give”, this was what God would have them do
and in verse 4 of today’s bible passage, God acknowledged it by sending an
angel to inform them, that it has come as a memorial offering to him, and gave
further instruction to expand the focus.
Your
prayer should always agree with your mission statement which should agree with
God.
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