THE PLACE AND THE POWER OF CORPORATE PRAYER-1

There can be no greater or better way of releasing the power of God than through corporate prayer. It is therefore pertinent that we give attention to what united or corporate prayer can do, in releasing the power of God that is needed to destroy yokes and burdens of affliction.
Briefly, the Old Testament has a number of occasions in which God's people came together to pray, as we can see in some other chapters of this book, e.g. in the case of Esther and Jews fasting for 3 days to annul the evil decree made against the Jews and induced by Haman, the son of Harmedatha. Although fasting was involved but, it does not have to be always.
The principle is summarized in 2 Chronicles Chapter 7 and verse 14.
14: "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land".The words used by the almighty God in this verse have a lot of things to reveal about trouble and the solution to it. He would not have talked about healing their land, if there was no trouble in the land that required healing. In other to understand things better here, let’s read verse 13-
13 " If I shut up the heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among the people"…
These scriptures talk about drought, locust, pestilence (epidemic of disease: an epidemic of a highly infectious disease e.g. – bubonic plague), or a serious infectious disease. Thus God is saying that if there is trouble or affliction and His people call upon him in prayer and humbling of themselves; He will intervene.
The scriptures have a lot more to say about the power of united prayer or pursuit in the Kingdom of God, thus in
Leviticus 26: 8 "five of you shall chase a hundred and hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you". Mathematically speaking, this does not look proportionate or accurate, because five chasing a hundred, implies that one person chases twenty people or enemies, whereas a hundred chasing ten thousand implies that one person chases a hundred people, meaning that as more of God's people come together, the power of God is amplified five times. Thus each and every one of the hundred people who came together, can do five times more than the five people who came together. Again in Deuteronomy 32: 20 we read:
20: "How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had surrendered them?”This goes further to show us how that power of God is amplified by the coming together of his people.
Finally in Psalm 133, verses 1-3, we see the excellence of Christians coming together revealed.
1 "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the skirts of his garment";
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore.This incredible revelation summarizes it all. In the place of unity, we have the release of oil or something similar to it that is the anointing to destroy yokes and remove burdens. The dew of Hermon refers to the anointing (freshness and purity).
The third verse says that God commands the blessing there. The blessing is the Old Testament word that explains everything that the anointing does.