The Effect Prayer Has on Your Life

by Chuck Adair on November 19, 2025

The Effect Prayer Has on Your Life

Read Acts 13

Today’s Truth

In Acts 2, the early church movement starts with believers gathered in one room praying and seeking wisdom from God. A couple of chapters later, they gather for a prayer meeting and the room physically shakes with the power of God.

In Acts 13, the Antioch church meets to pray and fast over their next step, and Barnabas and Saul are sent out on a mission. The power of prayer is unmistakable in the life of the Church.

Discussion Questions

What does this passage teach us about God? How does it apply to you?
Saul and Barnabas immediately responded with obedience when they knew what to do. Are you delaying obedience on something God has asked you to do? Why?
How did the persecution against the Church allow early Christians to reach more people with the Gospel?

Application

What are you praying for? And not the casual give-a-brief-thought-and-look-up kind of prayer. Not the “prayin’ for ya” post on Facebook. What are you desperate for? What are you asking for that will not happen without God's intervention?

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About the Author

Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

The Effect Prayer Has on Your Life