Concerto of Prayer

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We would like to extend our invitation to you to join us in an evening of prayer for revival and reformation. We have titled this event “A Concerto of Prayer” since we hope to offer up unified prayer through many local churches together as one on Wednesday, November 20^th between 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time.

What to Pray For

Pray that the Lord will grant an extraordinary work of His Spirit to save a great number of souls in our cities, provinces and country.
Pray that more men would be willing to faithfully take the gospel outside the walls of our churches and into their communities.
Pray that the churches will grow in vigor and become a great force of influence in our culture and institutions.
Pray that individual believers would practice a life of holiness and forsake the pleasures of this world.
Pray for the faithfulness of the Churches in our country to adhere to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over them and to remove any sin that is lingering within its walls.
Pray for the future of our country, for the salvation of our leaders that we might live peaceful lives.

How it Works

You will assign a one hour time slot to multiple groups of people from your congregation for prayer. Groups will switch every hour. While a group from a church is praying, others in other congregations from different cities will be praying together also. Prayer is focused upon God bringing revival to our provinces and country in the form of salvation of souls.

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Background

The idea behind a concerto of prayer began in the 1740s with the title itself coined by none other than American theologian Jonathan Edwards. This concerto was a commitment by churches for the nations from the nations to pray in sync for the revival of God’s blessing of salvation upon the entire world. Edwards was an extraordinary theologian who lived during the 18^th century, and he is rightly considered one of the greatest minds ever to live on American soil. He was a pastor who saw the First Great Awakening and was one of the main voices during this spiritual revival. Edwards believed that for such revivals to happen (and continually happen), something big needed to come from God through His people. But Edwards was looking for more than a casual kneeling by the bedside, he was looking for extraordinary prayer, petitions to God as a concert of sweet prayer in harmony together all throughout the world. This eventually became a book which the title itself lays out its entire premise: An humble attempt to promote explicit agreement and visible union of God’s people in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion and the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom on earth, pursuant to Scripture-promises and prophecies concerning the last time. Edwards’ thesis is based upon the text of Zechariah 8:20-22 where it states:

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities. The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I will also go.” So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.’

He writes:

From the representation made in the prophecy, it appears rational to suppose that it will be fulfilled something after this manner. There shall be given much of a spirit of prayer to God’s people, in many places, disposing them to come into an express agreement, unitedly to pray to God in an extraordinary manner; that he would appear for the help of his church, and in mercy to mankind, and pour out his Spirit, revive his work, and advance his spiritual kingdom in the world, as he has promised[1].

Edwards was looking for a revival and to join the ongoing concert from believers in Scotland and elsewhere. From the whole we may infer, that it is a very suitable thing, and well pleasing to God, for many people, in different parts of the world, by express agreement, to come into a visible union in extraordinary, speedy, fervent, and constant prayer, for those great effusions of the Holy Spirit, which shall bring on the advancement of Christ’s church and kingdom… Edwards encouraged Christians to become a people who sought to exhibit zealous reverence across the nations. Participation in these prayer meetings was prominent in England, Scotland and in beautiful New England.

The major ingredient and what is truly needed for a concerto of prayer, like in any good musical ensemble, is the harmony amongst the musicians. You can’t have an assemblage when everyone is blurting out sounds whenever they so choose. Edwards reminds us of the significance of unity in the concert of prayer.

How beautiful, and of good tendence would it be for multitudes of Christians, in various parts of the world, by explicit agreement, to unite in such prayers as is proposed to us. Union is one of the most amiable things that pertain to human society; yea, it is one of the most beautiful and happy things on earth, which indeed makes earth most like heaven.
– Jonathan Edwards

[1] A Humble Attempt, Jonathan Edwards, Christian Focus Publication, 2004, Page 49