Prayer That Cries 'Your Kingdom Come'

Immanuel's vision is to build a community from all cultures where Christ is King!

We labor to build communities from all cultures where Christ is King through…
· Truth That Transforms Lives
· Community That Displays Christ
· Prayer That Cries ‘Your Kingdom Come’
· Worship That Feeds The Soul
· Mission That Welcomes Everybody In

We emphasize prayer that cries 'Your kingdom come' through the following three distinctives:

1. Effective Prayer – God has made it clear that if we work for Him without His power then our work is useless (Ps. 127). He made it plain when He said, “without me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). On the other hand, He also made it clear that by calling on Him in prayer, we can see Him accomplish great things. James wrote, “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (James 5:16). As a Church we have great desires to grow; We want to grow in faithfulness, in numbers, in depth and in experience. In everyway possible we want to grow! Because of this desire for growth, we shun the futility of prayerlessness and we embrace God’s gift of effective prayer.

2. Individual Prayer – Jesus taught his followers about private prayer when He said in Matthew 6:5-6 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” We desire our prayers to be pleasing to God, and rewarded by God and so we encourage every believer to devote themselves to individual prayer.

3. Gathered Prayer – While Jesus rejects public prayer that is all for show, he loves corporate prayer that really seeks Him and His power. The early believers received direction from God in prayer (Acts 13:1-5). They were strengthened by God through corporate prayer (Acts 4). And we, like them, want to be a people devoted to corporate prayer.