Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Join us for Prayer-Meeting at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesdays!

We typically do a combination of reading Scripture, singing a hymn, and praying together.

Here’s an outline of Charles Spurgeon’s sermon entitled Prayer-Meetings delivered on August 30th, 1868:

The Apostolic History of Meeting for Prayer

1. To encourage discouraged people.

2. It is the appointed place to receive power.

3. It is the resource of the persecuted church.

4. It is the means of individual deliverance.

5. It is the means of suggesting missionary operations.

6. It it may be the first step in a new work for Christ.

What Are the Uses of the Prayer-Meeting?

1. It is a very useful thing for Christians to pray with each other, even apart from the answer.

2. It also generates devotion.

3. God has promised extraordinary and special blessings in connection with it.

What Are the Hindrances to the Prayer-Meeting?

1. The hindrance of unholiness

2. The hindrance of discord.

3. The hindrance of hypocrisy.

4. The hindrance of long prayers.

5. The hindrance of preaching little sermons in our prayers.

6. The hindrance of a lack of being direct with our prayers.

7. The hindrance of a lack of real intensity in our prayers.

8. The hindrance of a lack of faith.

9. The hindrance of inconsistency in our prayers.

What Should Be the Great Object of the Prayer-Meeting, and That for Which We Should Seek the Answer?

1. For the glory of God, or else the prayer is invalid.

2. We must pray for a blessing on the Church.

3. We must pray for the conversion of the ungodly

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