{"id":8699,"date":"2012-03-11T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&p=8699"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:56:39","slug":"pray-for-gods-preparation-2","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/pray-for-gods-preparation-2","title":{"rendered":"Pray for God’s Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor Gary Combs continues the WITNESS sermon series with this message from Acts 26 about prayer. Prayer isn’t a footnote to evangelism. It’s the top note! In the book of Acts, the apostle Paul was brought before the new Roman governor of Judea, Porcius Festus, under accusation by the Jews. Wishing to get their opinion on this Jewish matter, he invited King Agrippa and his sister Bernice to hear Paul\u2019s case. Paul told them how Christ saved him and commissioned him to carry the gospel to Jews and Gentiles. Paul realized that this commission to \u201copen\u201d men\u2019s eyes was dependent on God\u2019s power. Paul recognized the necessity of prayer in preparation for seeing people come to Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8698,"template":"","tags":[2025,2027],"series":[2742],"scripture-book":[1311],"scripture-chapter":[1359],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-8699","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-evangelism","tag-prayer","series-witness","scripture-book-acts","scripture-chapter-1359","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/8699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}