: Stuart Robinson
: Prayer Power Changing the World and You
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: Prayer Power
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Prayer Power - Changing the World and You is a tour de force about the power of prayer. It will leave you challenged, stirred and inspired. The author shows how prayer is the key which unlocks the vaults of heaven. It is filled with extraordinary stories.

Dr Stuart Robinson is the Founding Pastor of Australia's largest Baptist Church. Before that he worked for fourteen years in South Asia where he pioneered church planting among a previously very resistant majority people group. He travels extensively as a speaker at Seminars, Conferences and Colleges. He is the author of thirteen books including best-selling titles, Mosques& Miracles, Defying Death, The Prayer of Obedience and The Challenge of Islam. He graduated from four tertiary institutions. Stuart was born in Brisbane Australia and is married to Margaret. They have three married children. www.drstuartrobinson.com

Chapter 1 PRAYING THE PRICE

God is limited by only two things—
unbelief and lack of prayer.

John Wesley (1703–1791)

In 1952, Albert Einstein was asked by a Princeton student what he should research for his doctoral dissertation. Einstein replied, “Find out about prayer.”

When English preacher, Sidlow Baxter was 85 years of age he said, “I have pastored only three churches in my more than sixty years of ministry. We had revival in every one. Not one of them came as a result of my preaching. They came as a result of the membership entering a covenant to pray until revival came. And it did come, every time.”4

Former Chaplain of the United States Senate, Richard Halverson noted that without prayer we are doomed to failure. “You can organize until you are exhausted. You can plan, program and subsidize all your plans. But if you fail to pray, it is a waste of time. Prayer is not optional. It is mandatory. Not to pray is to disobey God.”5

In what is today known as South Korea, in the twentieth century the church grew from 1.8% to 40.8% of the population. In China a similar phenomenon is occurring. In mainland China’s 1953 census, Christians were numbered at 660,000. No one can be sure of the current number of believers in China today. But early in 2008 speaking in Beijing University, a government official of the Department of Religious Affairs, announced that while the Government couldn’t be certain, the number of Christians could be as many as 130 million. In both countries Christian leaders identify one element being more important than any other—persistent, persevering prayer.

Pastor David Yonggi Cho whose church in Seoul grew to approximately a million members before he retired, said that any church could see this sort of phenomenal growth if they were prepared to “pray and obey”. In South Korea it is normal for believers to go to bed early to rise by 4:00am, to be in church by 5:00am, to participate in corporate prayer. It is normal to pray throughout Friday nights to 6:00am Saturday. It is normal to use the first three days of their nine days annual holiday leave at prayer retreats.

In these countries prayer is a way of life, not just a crash response to an emergency.

Supernatural Growth

Only God causes things to grow (1 Corinthians 3:7). A church is no exception to this principle. It also is a living organism. Jesus Christ is its head (Colossians 1:18). From Him life flows (John 14:6). Our part is to cooperate