5700 Rudnick Ave. Woodland Hills, CA 91367 (818) 346-6968 Home > Resources > Prayer Resources > If Two of You Agree PRAYER RESOURCES   IF TWO OF YOU AGREE Prayer is one of the primary ways through which the power of god is set loose in the world and in our individual lives. Jesus was bold in his affirmation of the unlimited possibilities that are ours through faith. I hope that our minds are expanding to claim the promises Jesus offered.   Matthew 7:7-8:   Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and fore everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.   Matthew 17:20:   If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.   Of course, we can’t get our minds around such expansive promises in a short time. What excitement will be added to our praying when we pray even out of a longing to appropriate this expansive faith.   So, while your mind is yet staggered by these promises, her is still more good news from Jesus:   Matthew 18:19-20   If two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.   Here is a dimension of prayer that we have not yet considered in this adventure: praying with others. Jesus was insistent that we find solitude and be alone with God. Here he is saying that the mind and will of god come to us when we pray with others.   “if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.” Doesn’t that boggle your mind? The implication here that we need to concentrate upon is that focus that can come to our praying when we share with another or with a group. Many times when we pray alone, it is difficult to sift our selfish desires from our real needs, difficult to keep clear our seeking the will of God rather than our own wills. Our overwhelming desires need to be examined, even somewhat suspiciously. Lest they conflict with the fundamental desires of the heart. It is only the satisfaction of the deepest desires of the human heart which can bring fulfillment.   So we pray with another or a group, to test ourselves as it were, to get help in sifting through and sorting out the longings and desires that clamor for satisfaction and fulfillment.   The testing comes at two levels. One, it presses us to clarify our longings and desires. Two, it enables us to examine whether our deepest desires are good for us and are in keeping with Gods will. The psalmist said, God “gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul” (Psalm 106:15, KJV). Our desires are not always pure, certainly not always goof for us. So we test them with others we trust.   Our praying, especially with another or a group, is a testing of the needs and longings we feel. Are your desires so deep, so important, maybe even so desperate, that you would like to find a prayer partner to agree with you in making specific petitions to God?   Right now, pray for guidance in selecting a prayer partner.