Prayer has often been cited as the hallmark of FGT. Prior to the birth of the church, the pioneering group laboured for weeks in prayer. Every major project undertaken in faith by FGT over the years has always been preceded by months, if not years of prayer.
Church members learned to model after their leaders to develop the same passion and fervency to seek the face of the Lord for strength, faith and favour for themselves and FGT.
I believe the church started on the right footing with her strong emphasis on prayer. Prayer wasn’t just a part of the program; it was the central discipline of the church. If there is one common denominator in all of the church’s milestones, we will find that to be prayer. It is very encouraging that after three decades of being in existence, FGT has not lost her fervour for prayer. We have seen many times, how prayer turned things around for the church.
We are made up of mostly young average, ordinary folks; yet the great things that we have accomplished over the years, is a testimony of the greatness of God, and of our dependency on prayer. My prayer discipline improved over the years that I have been in FGT. But more than just pray as part of a routine, I am realizing the importance of being a person who experiences answered prayers. And for that to happen, it boils down to developing an intimacy with God. I learned that for prayer to be effective, i.e. for God to listen to me, I had to have the fear of the Lord in my life. This is something that I see as paramount to having a close walk with God.
Perseverance and prevailing in prayer – now that is a discipline that is not easy to develop, and it is one of those things that does not come overnight. But it is precisely due to my observance in watching how others persist in prayer – that I finally saw my father’s salvation in 2007 – after almost 30 years of saying many prayers for him to be saved.
R Jayashankar
FGT Subang Jaya