The Midnight Prayer Club
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more
Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power
with God and with men, and hast prevailed
(Genesis 32:28)

Every true foray into the palace of power, even from the ages past, is via prayer. The modern-day craving for power without a corresponding appetite to pay the ultimate price of prayer, has always met with utter failure.

Prayer Is Battle
The reason for power-failure, particularly among Christians today, is definitely and conclusively traceable to prayer-failure! Prayer is nothing but sacrificial battle! Just as Mathematics is scary to many a high-school student, so is sacrificial prayer a great burden to many a modern-day Christian. But as it is, you cannot eat your cake and have it.

Success, just like Mathematics, is cheap if you tenaciously follow example. The Bible is a power book, abounding in examples of men and women of virtue, valor and power, like Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Jabez, Hannah, Daniel etc... If we can tenaciously follow the pathway to power and success as laid down in the Bible, we would surely arrive at that sweet destination.

Midnight Watchers
There is always an appointment with the midnight-hour kept by every man and woman of power, fame, valor and substance in the Bible. I call them the Midnight prayer club.

The midnight-hour symbolizes the ‘gate’ of every day. The gate of very city holds the fate of that city. It is a place of warfare (Isaiah 28:6). It is only those win the ‘battle of the gates’ that conquer the city. To bring a city to her knees in submission, victory strategies by armies of old is to besiege the gate of that city, thereby cutting-off supplies.

By power analogy therefore, whenever a man misses or loses out at the ‘gate-battle’, he would become a wandering destitute, stranded in the city of life.

The mid-night hour is the slumber hour for the multitudes. The Bible declared that “…while men slept, his enemy came and sow tares... (Matthew 13:25)” That is when battles are won and lost.

Now declare with the fire of prayer in your voice with me:

• Every battle assigned to waste my destiny, SCATTER unto desolation in Jesus name! Amen.