BIBLICAL WARFARE PRAYERS: The Prayer of the Persecuted Disciples (Acts 4:24-30)

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NOTE:  This prayer has been recorded TWICE, first for listening and agreeing, then again for repeating. 

This very short but very powerful prayer must constitute an essential component of our corporate spiritual warfare in this end-time hour. We recommend that you pray this prayer (or its equivalent) at least once a week, along with your (at least) weekly prayers for local and world leaders. 

If you are praying this prayer alone, we suggest that you preface the prayer in this way: "Father, I join my heart, voice, and prayers now with all of my brothers and sisters in the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ". 

This prayer is drawn directly from the events described in Acts 4:23-31. The gathered disciples prayed this prayer together after the apostles Peter and John had been imprisoned, warned, and then released by the priests and Sadducees. The original text is given below. For the purposes of this prayer, the details of the prayer have been adjusted to reflect our contemporary context. 

Acts 4:23-31 (NASB)

23. When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 

24. And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You who MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM,

25. who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,

‘WHY DID THE GENTILES RAGE,

 AND THE PEOPLES DEVISE FUTILE THINGS?

26. ‘THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOOK THEIR STAND,

AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER

AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS CHRIST.’

27. “For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 

28. to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur. 

29. “And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, 

30. while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.” 

31. And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.