God Is Working Through Our Prayer Meeting
This past Sunday, Deacon Les Card shared a testimony about the ways God has been using our monthly prayer meeting in his life. Read his testimony below, celebrate the grace of God in his life, and join us on Thursday evening at 7pm for our prayer meeting.
I want to briefly share regarding our monthly prayer meetings and what God has shown me over the past several months.
Coincidently a few months ago Sue and I started a study on prayer. While we were focusing on our individual prayer life it has application to our community prayer meetings as well.
Scripture provides a clear encouragement for these prayer meetings in 1 Timothy 2:1-2 “First of all, then, I urge supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.”
During our prayer meetings, we break up into smaller groups and use a guide for specific prayer topics and spend about an hour praying. In several specific ways these prayer meetings have opened my eyes:
They are a unique and special opportunity to interact with members outside your normal small group members and meet new members,
They provide exposure and awareness to needs and prayers of our brothers and sisters, which in turn leads me in individual prayer for these needs/requests,
We are aware of the local community as we sit on the corner of Chapman and Grand and traffic, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians go by. We are across the street from City Hall and local businesses. Then we pray specifically for our local elected leaders and businesses struggling through the pandemic,
We pray for regional and national leaders as well as Sovereign Grace churches and ministries,
We pray for broad pandemic issues affecting the body and community – illness, death, jobs, employment, finances, etc., month after month after month as scripture leads us to repeat prayers as in Matt7:7-8 “Ask, and it will be given to you, seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened to you”,
There is unity in the member’s prayers and encouragement that God hears all and answers,
And last, but probably most significant, these meetings have expanded my perspective beyond my little world and into what God is doing throughout the church and the community.
I want to encourage you to join us in our conversations with God, this Thursday at 7:00pm, where you will speak to God, grow closer to the church body, and expand your horizons.