Recognizing the power of prayer as described in James 5:16: “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2025:
| DATE (third Monday at 10 am monthly) | HOST CHURCH (PRAYER GATHERING AT THIS CHURCH) |
| Monday, January 20, 2025 (Martin Luther King Day) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, February 17 (Presidents’ Day) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, March 17 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, April 21 | Saluda BC |
| Thursday, May 1 | NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER (at Newington BC at 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm) |
| Monday, May 19 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, June 16 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, July 21 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, August 18 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, September 15 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, October 20 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, November 17 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, December 15 | Saluda BC |
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MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2024:
| DATE (third Monday night at 6:00 pm monthly) | HOST CHURCH (PRAYER GATHERING AT THIS CHURCH |
| Monday, January 15, 2024 (CANCELLED SNOW) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, January 29 (re-scheduled from January 15) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, February 19 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, March 18 | Spring Hill BC (centrally located church) |
| Mon., April 15 (cancelled-severe storm) | Saluda BC |
| Thursday, May 2 | NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER |
| Monday, May 20 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, June 17 | New Hope Fellowship (centrally located church) |
| Monday, July 15 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, August 19 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, September 16 | Urbanna BC (centrally located church) |
| Monday, October 21 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, November 18 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, December 16 | Beale Memorial (centrally located church) |
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MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2020:
| DATE (second Monday night monthly) | HOST CHURCH (PRAYER GATHERING AT THIS CHURCH) | SISTER CHURCHES PRAYING FOR |
| Monday, January 13 at 7 pm | Poroporone | Olivet, Beulah |
| Monday, February 10 at 7 pm | Glebe Landing | Saluda |
| Monday, March 9 at 7 pm | Newington | New Freedom Congregation, New Hope Fellowship |
| Monday, April 13 at 7 pm | at your home (due to corona virus) | Bruington |
| Monday, May 11 at 7 pm | at your home | Macedonia, First BC of Harmony Village |
| Monday, June 8 at 7 pm | Olivet | White Stone |
| Monday, July 13 at 7 pm | Hermitage | Westville, Spring Hill |
| Monday, August 10 at 7 pm | Lower King & Queen | Mattaponi |
| Monday, September 14 at 7 pm | Glebe Landing | Mathews, Zoar |
| Monday, October 12 at 7 pm | Zoar | Gwynn’s Island |
| Monday, November 9 at 7 pm | Urbanna | New Hope Memorial, Harmony Grove |
| Planning meeting for 2021, cancelled due to covid-19 |
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Oswald Chambers on Intercessory Prayer
“You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption. Instead, you will simply be turning intercession into useless sympathy for others, which will serve only to increase the contentment they have for remaining out of touch with God. True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. Intercession means to “fill up…[with] what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” (Colossians 1:24), and this is precisely why there are so few intercessors. People describe intercession by saying, “It is putting yourself in someone else’s place.” That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.
As an intercessor, be careful not to seek too much information from God regarding the situation you are praying about, because you may be overwhelmed. If you know too much, more than God has ordained for you to know, you can’t pray; the circumstances of the people become so overpowering that you are no longer able to get to the underlying truth.
Our work is to be in such close contact with God that we may have His mind about everything, but we shirk that responsibility by substituting doing for interceding. And yet intercession is the only thing that has no drawbacks, because it keeps our relationship completely open with God.
What we must avoid in intercession is praying for someone to be simply “patched up.” We must pray that person completely through into contact with the very life of God. Think of the number of people God has brought across our path, only to see us drop them! When we pray on the basis of redemption, God creates something He can create in no other way than through intercessory prayer.”
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