Day of Special Studies 2026 | Metropolitan Tabernacle

Day of Special Studies – all welcome

Plus Pastors’ and Seminarians’ Fraternal

Metropolitan Tabernacle

21st & 23rd November 2026

Thomas Watson’s famous maxim has spoken across the centuries –

‘Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts his heart, and opens his hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.’

Thomas Goodwin added:

‘When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people’s hearts to work at prayer.’

How much we, as believers, may learn through our earthly journey about the mighty facility of prayer! We welcome all to our special meetings in November to consider magnificent aspects of prayer in church and individual life. How we long for a demonstration of saving power to break the stronghold of unbelief and vice in our day! How can it happen with twenty minute prayer times at midweek meetings attended by handfuls?

Here is an opportunity to expand our understanding and stir our faint desires to take up the promises of God –

‘Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart’ (Jeremiah 29.12-13).

Saturday Day of Special Studies

21st November | 11.30am to 4.30pm

The Saturday Day of Studies is free to attend and open to all. Lunch is provided.
Please register below, or by contacting the Tabernacle directly: [email protected] or 020 7735 7076

BSL interpreting and loop provided

(1) The ‘Machinery’ of Prayer

Pastor Jonathan Wilson (Zion Evangelical Baptist Church, Ripon)

All believers sense that prayer is an enormous privilege, but how exactly does it work? What happens when we pray? Why should we need to pray? Is there a conflict between the sovereignty of God and the effectiveness of prayer? To whom do we pray? This session seeks to answer questions concerning the theology of prayer.

(2) The Essential Biblical Categories of Prayer

Dr Peter Masters (Metropolitan Tabernacle)

In 1716 Isaac Watts famously identified nine distinct forms of prayer regularly offered in
Scripture. Although seemingly unknown to many believers today, all are essential for enlightened, earnest prayer. To honour the mind of God in the categories of prayer is immensely enriching for all believers, especially those who lead others in prayer.

(3) Learning from the Puritan Divines on Prayer

Pastor Christopher Buss (Metropolitan Tabernacle)

This address reflects on the public and private prayers of Stephen Charnock, John Bunyan and John Owen, to observe their richness, depth and earnestness to encourage and stimulate us in our own praying.

(4) Promises Attached to Prayer

Pastor Ibrahim Ag Mohamed (Uxbridge Road Tabernacle)

In a day of small things, when prayer meetings are at a low ebb in so many churches, ‘from whence cometh our help?’ The Word of God is replete with prayer-promises secured only in Christ Jesus. Beginning with Jeremiah 33.3, this address will focus on ‘exceeding great and precious promises’, considering the obstacles to surmount, the conditions to fulfil, and finally, the ‘whatsoever ye shall ask in my name’ texts in their contexts.

Monday Fraternal

23rd November | 11.30am to 3.30pm

The Monday Fraternal is for Pastors, seminarians and Christian workers who are welcome to attend both days, or the Fraternal only.
To register, please contact the Tabernacle direct: [email protected] or 020 7735 7076

(1) The Centrality of the Prayer Meeting

Pastor Christopher Buss (Metropolitan Tabernacle)

The divine warrant for church prayer meetings and their ideal pattern and aims. How we may reinvigorate commitment to such meetings.

(2) Prayer in Public Worship

Dr Peter Masters (Metropolitan Tabernacle)

It would appear that few churches today open their worship services with objective adoration. What was once the unshakeable rule has vanished. Today, so often, prayer begins with ourselves, and our spiritual blessings. Here is public prayer as it used to be, the elements to be included, and the simplicity and orderliness required. How should we intercede? How may we avoid preaching in prayer? What precisely is ‘the prayer of faith’?

(3) Effective Prayer

Pastor Jonathan Wilson (Zion Evangelical Baptist Church, Ripon)

Knowing the responsibility that we have to pray as God’s people, how then can we pray effectively? In this session we will consider the use of Scripture and arguments in prayer, and the need for zealous and fervent prayer. How are we to remedy coldness in prayer?

Directions

Metropolitan Tabernacle, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SD › Google Maps

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Over 25 bus routes stop outside or near the Tabernacle

Elephant & Castle railway station is opposite

Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo/Northern lines)

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