Resurrection Roadshow - Part Nine

Praying with Gethsemane Intensity

Acts 12:1-19

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

Acts 12:5

An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Luke 22:43-44

1. Fervent praying involves intensity, implies urgency and suggests a gravity or seriousness of situation.

2. In scripture there is a dynamic connection between fervent praying and deliverance.

3. Three things Gethsemane intensity (GI) praying IS NOT:

a. GI praying is not pouting or pity prayer. b. GI praying not presumptuous or

manipulative prayer. c. GI praying not procrastination prayer.

4. Three things Gethsemane intensity praying IS:

a. GI praying is praying to God b. GI praying is united prayer. c. GI prayer is specific prayer.5. We believe in a God who intervenes and

His intervention is dynamically connected to our intercession.