prayer and interceeding before God

Pastor has called for seven days of prayer; prayer for the city and the surrounding communities, the bedroom communities.
He has a strategy. My group is praying specifically for the north end of the city.
A quote from a book written by an author of many years ago reads
like this, “For all ages, the law is laid down at the birth of the Church, THAT THE POWER OF THE Spirit must be prayed down from heaven. The amount of believing , continued prayer will determine the amount of the working of the Spirit in the Church. Direct, definite, determined, prayer is what we need.
In the 4th. Chapter of Acts you can see the confirmation of this kind of prayer that brings these kind of results. Peter and John were arrested and then brought before the council…the Jewish
High priest and his henchman. It’s a story that is a real suspense thriller ….read the 4th. Chapter and you will see for yourself. It’s too long to recount here but it is a fascinating story of real adventure and intrigue. The result was that after they were
threatened , they returned to their brothers , the disciples, and reported what had been done to them, “they lifted up their voices to God with one accord” and when they had prayed, the place was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spoke the Word of God with boldness”…..”and great grace was upon them..” I urge you to read this story. I experienced this outpouring of the infilling many years ago myself. While praying in an upper room in an old hall that substituted for a church house on a Saturday night in February of 1957, I too received this infilling. As we pray this week, let it be direct, definite and determined prayer that we pray as if we were in an upper room praying down the Holy Ghost from heaven and may we be bold in our God.