In answer to their intercession the Lord sent an angel who took Peter out of his chains and through the locked doors as effortlessly as a great liner sails out to sea. Because like us they only half believed in the effectual nature of prayer. Revival and Improvements at the Church Prayer Meeting We stand in urgent need of revival personally, in our churches, nationally, and internationally. When revival comes he who is the Spirit will almost certainly begin to stir us in our private prayers and in our church prayer meetings. There is room for occasional united church prayer meetings.
Spiritual impetus can come from other evangelical churches.
Revivals always seem to have their genesis in prayer meetings. Written by an eye witness, Samuel Prime, it describes how a great national revival began with a small prayer meeting. The local church weekly prayer meeting is the best place to call upon the Lord to revive his work. This definition is composed from the Larger and Shorter Catechisms and cited in B. M. Palmer s book Theology of Prayer . 4 hetoimasmenon is a perfect passive.