Prayer Really Works

I think I mentioned Prayer Works in my blogs before but this week we started our Faith Enrichment Days (a week in January) with this specific title. I fully endorse it. I like the name.

We had 11 video clips this morning of people willing to share something on 'answered prayer' in their lives. An additional two people stood up front with the Pastor to share 'in person' (not on video) about their specific answer to prayer.

As Pastory Gary said, any skeptics in the audience may not be 'won over' by these testimonies. If you are a skeptic, you may stay as one. But, for believers, these were statements that only served to encourage and affirm our own belief in a God that answers prayer.

Some pretty amazing stories that so often go untold except to immediate family members who are involved in the specific situation or friends called on to pray. A few weeks ago the Pastor asked if there were people in the congregation who would be willing to write down on paper a short version of an answered prayer and to hand it in and the church would compile them into a book or 'something'. It was amazing to see the number of responses to this request.

This morning the ushers handed out to everyone who passed through the doors, a little printed book of 'answered prayers' compiled from the many submitted that Sunday a few weeks ago. This coming week we all will have opportunity to read the other stories that had been written down and handed in. We are having a week (well, actually it is only four evenings but we call it Prayer Week) of evening church meetings focused on prayer. Now, that might sound pretty boring to you but in fact, it is actually quite exciting. Our church tends to lean to the 'conservative side' but it never holds back on creativity! It will not be boring in any sense of the word.