An Interesting Sunday
Posted September 1, 2009 – 10:00 am in: MessagesThere’s no message to post from this Sunday, because I didn’t end up preaching—which is very odd for me! Here’s what happened:
As I was finishing the worship set, I felt like we should take some time and pray for each other’s needs. We shared our requests and assigned different people to pray for each of them. We prayed for:
- People to understand and use their spiritual gifts;
- Those who needed jobs;
- People who were hurting but felt unable to ask for help;
- The men’s and women’s retreats coming up in September;
- The leadership of the church;
- The four students we have returning to college;
- . . . and much more.
As we started, I thought we might take 10 or 15 minutes to pray. Forty-five minutes later we finished: our Sunday morning service became a large prayer meeting.
It was very encouraging for me to hear so many people pray for each other. If you were encouraged by the service, why not try out a Wednesday night prayer meeting (7-8 pm), or Sunday morning prayer (9:30-9:55 downstairs)? It’s important to communicate with God both in private and together as his church.
To close, I read a selection from Psalm 103 on God’s grace—the subject of what was supposed to be last Sunday’s message, but will now have to wait until next week.
Thanks for your prayer!
Tags: prayer, preaching, worship
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I love it when God screws up your day!!