and once again on prayer...

I just got an email about how there's been a bit of a resurgence of prayer in our sister congregation (CPE) thanks to some passionate pray-ers motivating others to prayer meetings.  It was a bit of a kick in the pants for me, because while I love praying (but find it easiest to pray with at least one other person and find it hard otherwise), depend whole-heartedly on prayer, and dearly want and pray for many more people in SLE to gather together to pray at our monthly PrayStation, I tend to resign myself to the fact that prayer is so vital that it's typically the least supported ministry of churches.  

Yes, that's right - we pray in inverse proportion to how much we need to pray.  It's actually a logical outworking of the theological fact - in that the more important something is to God's kingdom, the more Satan attacks it and prevents it, and the less it happens.  This is terrible, but giving into this is even more so.  So - I'm going to seek again to be not only a passionate pray-er, but a mobiliser of pray-ers.

And so, I posit that prayer is more important than pretty much ANYTHING else you do on the first Wednesday night of each month.  It's not that you therefore must come to PrayStations, but don't you agree that this is a darn good reason to?!

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.  1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  Acts 2:42