Acts: Unity, Prayer, and the Power of One Accord This is the joy that was evident in the New Testament Church, and just in closing, let us read a few verses in the book of Acts, look at Acts 1 -14, here we see the New Testament Church putting into practice those things that Jesus Christ said and taught, Acts 1 -14, these all continued with one accord, notice that, that's one of the keys to answered prayer, if you're going to receive answered prayer there in your prayer group, you must be of one accord, these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren, and then in Acts chapter 2 starting at the 42nd verse, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and in prayers, and fear came upon every soul and many signs and wonders were done by the apostles and all that believed were together and had all things common, there's many who want to see the blessing of verse 41 where it says they were added to the church about 3 ,000 souls, but there's few who want to pay the price of verse 42 and 44 and 45, in verse 45 we read, and sold their possessions and goods and parted them to all men as every man had need, and they continued daily with one accord, there it is, one accord in the temple with breaking of bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with the people, and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be seen, and there's many who want to see that happen, there's many who want to see verse 41 and verse 47, but there's not too many that want to pay the price that was paid by these people, the price of unity, the price of prayer, meeting together, loving one another at any cost, and as we look through the remaining pages of the book of Acts, we see the same thing over and over again, in Acts 4 .31 we read these words, and when they had prayed, the place had shaken, where they were gathered together and they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness, and right on through the book of Acts, when Peter was in prison, when Paul was in prison, and the church prayed and they were released, and so the book of Acts is one picture of people obeying the principles of the Lord Jesus Christ, meeting together in love and in prayer and in unity and in one accord, and in closing this message I want to say unless we're willing to do the same, unless we're willing to have all things common, unless we're willing to meet in love, unless we're willing to be of one mind and of one accord, unless we're willing to be shaken and filled with the Spirit, unless we're willing to bow down even when we're in the difficult spots as Peter was when he was in prison, unless we're willing to bow down in the midst of trials and battles and problems and enter into the life of prayer and into the life of praise and worship and then praise and believe in for great and mighty things, then let's quit now, let's turn off the recorder now, let's not go on any further, for unless God builds the house, the house will be built in vain, all might God grant it, in Jesus' name, let us pray, Heavenly Father we thank Thee that Thy word is true, we thank Thee that You're a prayer answering God, we thank You that You're a miracle working God and You're able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think, O God we pray that Thou would make these verses from Thy word real in our lives, that we tonight, that we today might enter into the school of prayer and learn of Jesus that in these days we might see great and mighty things for His honor, for His glory and for His praise, Amen.