It Takes Prayer

March 14, 2026

“Now it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles: Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot; Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who also became a traitor.” Luke 6:12-16

Jesus came down to this earth with a mission. He came down to us with a mission to save us. Because of His death on the cross we can be saved. As Jesus returned back to heaven, He passed on the mission to His disciples to spread the gospel. Jesus used His disciples to change the world. 

The whole book of Acts talks about how these disciples went out and shared the gospel of truth, the message of Jesus Christ. Because of what these disciples had started in the first century, millions of us today are influenced, changed, and saved by the gospel of Jesus. We have become Christians and we dearly await the second coming of Jesus Christ. 

What started this? Luke 6:12 tells us that the night Jesus chose the 12 disciples, He spent all night in prayer. It was the prayer of Jesus that ignited the movement to change and saved the whole world. Jesus prayed and He chose His 12 disciples to have them trained for three and half years. After Jesus returned to heaven, these disciples were the ones that changed the world. The first part of Acts tells us that the disciples gathered to pray. And the Holy Spirit was upon each of them.

We need to pray. Jesus commissioned us to go out and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19,20). Jesus doesn’t do any background checks on us. We don’t have to be smart. All it takes is a prayer to ignite ourselves, to kindle a fire of the Holy Spirit. We need to pray.