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    The Power of Prayer Handbook
    The Power of Prayer Handbook
    The Power of Prayer Handbook
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    The Power of Prayer Handbook

    By Dr. Peter Hammond

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    Experience the Power of dynamic Bible-based prayer with this practical handbook. Revive your prayer life. Revive the church prayer meeting. Surrender to the sovereignty of God. Experience the fire of God. Pray for the Persecuted. Pray for justice and see the course of history changed - by prayer!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Peter Hammond
    Release dateNov 23, 2012
    ISBN9781301149575
    The Power of Prayer Handbook
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    Dr. Peter Hammond

    Dr. Peter Hammondpeter@frontline.org.zaP. O. Box 74 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South AfricaTel: 021-689-4480Academic:Baptist Theological College, Cape Town - Christian Missions Diploma (Cum Laude), 27 November 1984 (Baptist Theological College is now: Baptist Theological Seminary)Whitefield Theological Seminary, Lakeland, Florida, USA, Graduate School of Theology - Doctorate of Missiology in the Field of Applied Missions, 16 October 1998Antioch Bible College Institute and Seminary, Cartersville, Georgia, USA – Doctorate of Divinity, 22 May 2004Accomplishments:Founder and Director of Frontline Fellowship since 1982Founder and Director of Africa Christian Action since 1991Founder and Convenor of the Biblical Worldview Summit since 1991Founder and Chairman of Christian Liberty Books since 1995Founder and Convenor of Great Commission Camps and Courses since 1998Founder of Literature4Africa in 2003Founder and Chairman of The Reformation Society since 2005Founder and Chairman of Livingstone Fellowship since 2006Founder and Principal of William Carey Bible Institute since 2007Founder and Principal of the Henry Morton Stanley School of Christian Journalism since 2018.Author of:Answering Skeptics (also translated into Afrikaans)Frontline: Behind Enemy Lines for ChristBiblical Principles For Africa (also translated into Afrikaans and French)Biblical Worldview ManualChaplains HandbookCharacter Assassins - Dealing with Ecclesiastical Tyrants and TerroristsChristian History of Africa ManualChurch History ManualThe Discipleship HandbookDiscipleship Training ManualFaith Under Fire In Sudan (first published in 1996, expanded edition 1998 and third edition 2010)Holocaust In Rwanda (also translated in to French)In the Killing Fields of MozambiqueMake a Difference - A Christian Action Handbook For Southern Africa (co-authored with Miriam Cain and Philip Stott)New Testament Survey - Exploring the Central Messages of Every Book of the BibleOld Testament Survey – Exploring the Central Messages of Every Book of the BiblePower of Prayer HandbookPractical Discipleship (also translated into Afrikaans)Putting Feet To Your FaithReforming Our Families (co-authored with wife, Lenora Hammond)Security and Survival HandbookSketches from South African HistorySlavery, Terrorism and Islam - The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat (three editions)South Africa - Renaissance or Reformation?The Christian at War (also translated into Afrikaans, German and Spanish)The Great Commission Handbook (formally The Great Commission Manual in 9 editions)The Rise of the GayGB and the Pink Inquisition (co-authored with Christine McCafferty and Taryn Lourens)The Ten Commandments –God's Perfect Law of Liberty (also translated into Afrikaans) in two editionsVictorious Christians – Who Changed the World (also translated into Afrikaans)Editor of Frontline Fellowship News since 1982.Editor of Christian Action magazine since 1992.Contributing Editor of JOY! Magazine from 2006-2016Producer of weekly radio program Salt and Light on Radio Tygerberg from 1995-2016Editor of Gospel Defence League since 2016Weekly presenter of Christian Perspective on the News on Radio Cape Pulpit since 2018Initiator and Convenor of the 1995 and 1996 Christian Voice marches to Parliament.Initiator of the Calvin500 movement and conference in Geneva, Switzerland July 2009Initiator and Convenor of the Livingstone200 in 2013Initiator and Convenor of the Reformation500 culminating in Wittenberg, Germany, October 2017Initiator and Convenor of the ZwingliReformation500 culminating in 2019Chairman of Flame Lily Foundation – Cape of Good Hope since 2018.Chairman of the Cape Independence Forum since 2019.Missionary to Mozambique and Angola in the 1980s, to Zambia, Rwanda and Sudan in the 1990s.Initiator of the Boxes with Love and Bibles and Bikes Projects for evangelists. Have conducted over 18,000 meetings, church services, lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, Bible studies and outreaches across 38 countries since conversion and call to Missions in 1977.Courses completed include: Evangelism Explosion 3, Cross Cultural Communication, Way of the Master, Muslim Evangelism and Child Evangelism. Received missionary training and worked in Scripture Union and Hospital Christian Fellowship.

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      The Power of Prayer Handbook - Dr. Peter Hammond

      POWER OF PRAYER HANDBOOK

      Peter Hammond

      Copyright 2012 by Peter Hammond

      Published by Frontline Fellowship Publishing at Smashwords

      Permission is hereby granted to any church, mission,

      magazine or periodical to reprint or quote from

      any portion of this publication on condition that:

      the passage is quoted in context, and that due

      acknowledgement of source be given. Please also

      mail a copy of any article to Frontline Fellowship,

      PO Box 74, Newlands, 7725,

      Cape Town, South Africa

      Typesetting: Colin Newman

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my daughter DANIELA CHRISTINE HAMMOND. May you continually deepen in your dedication to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. May you, like Daniel you are named after, be brave and bold, faithful to God's Word and faithful to God's Work.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Chapter 1 - Whatever Happened to the Prayer Meeting?

      Chapter 2 - The Power of Prayer

      Chapter 3 - The Best Start

      Chapter 4 - Revive Your Prayer Life

      Chapter 5 - Reviving the Church Prayer Meeting

      Chapter 6 - Prayer and the Sovereignty of God

      Chapter 7 - The Fire of God

      Chapter 8 - Praying for justice

      Chapter 9 - Pray for the Persecuted

      Chapter 10 - Powerful Prayers That Can Change Your Life

      Appendix 1 - A Guide for Extended Prayer Focus

      Appendix 2 - A Prayer of National Repentance

      Appendix 3 - Scriptural Imprecatory Prayer

      Bibliography and Recommended Books

      About the Author

      "Give me Scotland - or I die" John Knox's passionate prayer was answered in his lifetime.

      FOREWORD

      by Erlo Stegen

      Revivals are born in the atmosphere of true prayer. Desperate prayer. No Christian will ever grow spritually if this part of his life is neglected.

      One needs to remember that prayer is not a monologue, it's a two-way conversation. We speak to God and we need Him to speak to us. The example of the Pharisee and the publican praying in the temple was used as an example of false and true prayer.

      The Pharisee prayed with himself (Luke 18:11), God didn't even come into the picture. Since his own life was not right with God it revolved around himself and brought no response from Heaven

      The publican or tax collector on the other hand prayed from the heart in such a way that the power of God would be revealed.

      Rev. Erlo Stegen

      KwaSizabantu Mission

      In the busy marketplace Martin Luther lifts high the open Bible - challenging everyone to apply the Word of God to all areas of life.

      ~~~ Chapter 1 ~~~

      WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PRAYER MEETING?

      "After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly." Acts 4:31

      For centuries the prayer meeting was a central part of church life, an indispensable part of the weekly programme. Yet today few Western churches have a prayer meeting.

      What was once a major emphasis of church activities has either been relegated to the sidelines and ignored by most members, or it has been dispensed with altogether. Furthermore many prayer meetings today involve little prayer. Even in meetings set aside for prayer, other activities typically crowd in and leave little time for adoration, confession, intercession and thanksgiving to the Lord. We need to ask ourselves: Why is that?

      When I was converted, 28 years ago, my local church had a dynamic men’s meeting, prayer meeting and outreach evening each week. However, television had been introduced into South Africa the previous year and was beginning to encroach upon the church’s activities. The men’s meeting was temporarily suspended because it clashed with Rich Man, Poor Man, a popular weekly TV programme. (Actually the men’s meeting never reconvened).

      The weekly door-to-door outreach was also suspended, because it clashed with many people’s TV viewing. The prayer meeting became a special gathering for a few dedicated members rather than the weekly activity of most members. It appeared that in the daily demands and time pressures, prayer and evangelism were expendable.

      One would have thought that the church had few greater priorities than our relationship to God in prayer and reaching out in evangelism to our neighbour. But then I remember, in one of the first church member meetings I attended, that while improving the church’s acoustics at the cost of R4,000 was approved, it was agreed that the monthly support of the church’s missionaries could not be increased and would stay at R100. Evidently missions weren’t as high a priority as music.

      On one of my first mission trips behind the Iron Curtain to Eastern Europe, one of our persecuted brothers, Dr Paul Negrut, explained how they were able to recognise true believers, and identify informers planted by the Communist government: A real Christian loves God, a real Christian loves to read the Bible. A real Christian loves to pray. And a real Christian hates sin. Then this pastor added: We don’t count our members by how many attend the Sunday service, but by who attends the Bible study and prayer meeting.

      By that standard: how many real Christians and true members do we have?

      A hunger for God’s Word and a desire to pray are some of the first evidences of the new birth. I remember as a new Christian spending hours each day in Bible study and prayer. In the army and in the early years of this mission we spent whole nights in prayer. It was completely natural and thoroughly enjoyable as we poured out our hearts to God in prayer. And evangelism naturally flowed out of our times of intercession. The more of God’s Word we studied the more we wanted to pray. The more we prayed the greater our compulsion to share the Gospel with the unsaved around us.

      This is what the early church experienced. As they laboured in intensive, heartfelt prayer, they were fitted with the Holy Spirit. Then they went out and proclaimed God’s Word boldly (Acts 4:31).

      The Church is called to be a House of prayer for all nations. Intercession, evangelism and missions should be an indispensable part of every congregation.

      The prophet Samuel described prayerlessness as a sin (1 Samuel 12:23). The Reformer John Knox prayed: Give me Scotland or I die! No wonder Mary Queen of Scots declared that she was more afraid of the prayers of John Knox than of an army of ten thousand.

      The Bible places great emphasis on prayer:

      "Pray continually" 1 Thessalonians 5:19

      "Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always." 1 Chronicles 16:11

      "You will seek Me and you will find Me, where you search for Me with all your heart."

      Jeremiah 29:13

      "Search me O God and know my thoughts I pray. See if there be some wicked way in me; cleanse me from every sin and set me free." Jeremiah 17:10

      "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the Hesh is weak." Matthew 26:41

      "Then Jesus told His disciples...that they should always pray and not give up." Luke 18:1

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