This past Sunday I was reminded again of the mystery of prayer. I have blogged before on prayer. It has always been something that has been hard to wrap my head around. I get to talk to the God of the universe. The One who spoke the galaxies into existence, who thought up the 17 cascading steps to blood clotting, who designed human beings with free will and yet this God still maintains absolute sovereignty. Anyway, not only do I get to talk with him but I make suggestions like a grunt to management about how things in my life should be going. But prayer is His idea, He is the one who tells us to pray and to bring our requests to Him, so we do. I led the congregation in prayer this past Sunday. I decided to just give them different things to pray for and leave them a few moments to pray for those things. We thanked God, I had them pray for all the children in the building, and then I mentioned the mission team we had coming back from Haiti and the one leaving for Rome. After the second service a woman came up to me and said,"Hey, don't forget to pray for the team going to New Orleans. Some of them are leaving today." It was a good reminder so the next service I added the team going to New Orleans. A woman came up to me after the third service and said she had received a call from her husband during the service. She walked outside to take it. He was one of the men heading to New Orleans. He called her to ask her to have people pray. They were driving through white out conditions and he had just fishtailed the trailer all over the highway. She said,"They just prayed for you in the service". He asked when everyone had prayed. She said about 10 minutes ago. He said,"That is probably why we are still alive." I may not completely understand prayer but I really love it. It reminds me that God is interested in our lives. It reminds me there are not nearly as many coincidences as people think. So today, go ahead and pray. You don't have to understand it but it only takes a couple amazing things to make you really love it.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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As one of my dear friends always says: There is no such thing as a coincidence, it is a Godincidence!
"Run the race. The "fact" that lead millions to be martyred over the years is that Jesus rose physically from the grave. You may or may not believe that to be true, but that does not change the fact. Choose today your foundation to stand upon for the storm is not too far off.
No man afraid to die should ever lead the charge." It starts on your knees humbled before the Almighty God believing there is nothing that He can not do.
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