PRAYER PREPARATION

 

1.     From His “passion” to the Ascension was 40 days.

      a. Acts 1:3 “Jesus shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs,
      being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the
      kingdom of God.”

      b. Acts 1:9 “And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was
      taken  up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.”

2.     From the Ascension to Pentecost was 10 days.

a. Acts 1:14 “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication.”

b. Acts 2:1 “and when the day of Pentecost (fiftieth day) was fully come, they were all in one accord in one place.”

 

3.     Leaders in Antioch Prayed and Fasted While Ministering to the Lord.

a.     Acts 13:1-4 “As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted…and when they had fasted and prayed…”

 

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