Welcome to the second day of our season of Prayer and Fasting. I hope you took yesterday seriously and prayed for your marriage.

Today, I want to begin by discussing the power of prayer and how it can impact your family. From the earliest pages of Scripture, we see families like Abraham’s, built on promises and sustained by prayerful dependence on God.

Genesis 12:1-3
New King James Version
1 Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Abraham became a great nation through obedience and dependence on God’s guidance. In God’s eternal plan, He designed humanity not as solitary beings but as creatures of communion, representing Him on the earth.

The family structure has always been central to God’s plan to fill the earth. In Abraham’s new lineage and family, the salvation of the world depended.



This is not the first and would not be the last time that God’s plan relied on a Family. It relied on Noah to repopulate the earth after the flood and would later rely on Jacob who became Israel to be the lineage through which the Messiah would come.

All I am trying to say is that families are important to God.

Even the Family that our Lord Jesus Christ was born into was important for his nurturing and keeping towards his purpose.

History and biblical narratives alike reveal that the family structure, God’s foundational design thrives not merely on human effort but on the quiet, steady power of prayer. It thrives on communion with the divine.



Obedience to every word that comes out of the mouth of God.

This was the testimony of Abraham. Abraham’s journey, as we’ve read in Genesis 12, was not merely a physical relocation. It was a spiritual pilgrimage fuelled by prayerful trust in the Almighty.

He didn’t just hear the word of the Lord; he staked his life, his family, and his future on it. And what was the result? A nation birthed, a lineage blessed, and a promise fulfilled.

That is the power of discerning the voice of the Lord and the way to do it is in prayer.

By prayer, you can stay consistently in step.

Prayer aligns you with God’s will, prayer that moves mountains, prayer shows total commitment and trust in the Lord.

Prayer is not a passive whisper into the wind, it is a mighty weapon, a conduit of divine power that can knit families together in the Spirit.

James 5:16b declares,
16 “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

That word “fervent” means it’s alive, burning with passion, rooted in faith!

When you pray for your spouse, when you lift your children before the throne of God, when you intercede for your household, you are not just speaking words you are partnering with the Holy Spirit to call down heaven’s strength, wisdom, and protection.

History bears this out, and Scripture seals it.

The family thrives not on the shifting sands of human effort but on the bedrock of communion with God. Prayer is the lifeline that sustains it, the glue that binds it, the fire that refines it.

When Abraham obeyed, He had communication with God which we can call prayer.

When Noah built, it was the voice of God in prayer.

When Jacob wrestled, he prayed.

So I charge you today, in this sacred season of fasting and seeking God: do not underestimate the power of your prayers!

They are the unseen force that holds your family in the palm of God’s hand.

They are the means by which His promises take root in your lineage.

Prayer Point:

Father, from today, I take a stand in the place of prayer for my family. I declare that through us, your plan to fill the earth is fulfilled. My family is aligned with your will and sustained by prayers.

With love,
The Catalyst,
Pastor Michael Ipaye