Prayer and Community

Prayer and community

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.”

Psalm 133:1

How good and pleasant it is

when brothers live together in unity!

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

This morning Jonathan, Josh and I met at the ISCA house and prayed together. We prayed for each other, we prayed for the residents of the ISCA houses, we prayed for ISCA and ISCA leaders. We prayed. It was such a “sweet time of prayer”. A great way to start my day.

It really struck me – Why are prayer meetings always the smallest or even the “non-existent” meetings of the week? We do we say we are “Too busy to pray”?

Many years ago I read a book titled “Too busy NOT to pray”. Great title.

Often we feel “too busy to pray”. But when I think of our prayer time this morning I must ask “why on earth are we too busy for this?”

Why do we feel too busy to talk to the maker of the universe?

Why do we feel too busy to talk to the maker of the universe who died for me?

Why do we feel too busy to talk to the maker of the universe who died for me and who encourages me to talk to him?

And amazingly God listens! When the three of us prayed this morning it wasn’t 3 guys in a room talking. God Almighty was there.

That’s amazing!

I can’t wait until next week to do it again.

Feel free to join us: Friday’s at 8 AM at the ISCA house.