Prayer has been on my mind since the beginning of the year. The importance of prayer never left my heart, but it’s one thing to know and another thing to apply. But there’s something about adding urgency to the need for prayer that can make an individual sacrifice so many comforts in order to pray. An example I find in my own life is when I came to the decision to commit my life to the work in EA.
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We recently announced the launch of pilgrimdays.com at our church members’ meeting, but didn’t have time to fully explain what inspired the launch.
As a member of our Missionary Care team at church, I often waver between praying specific prayers for each of our missionaries and praying “clumpily” for them as a group. Part of this stems from my ignorance of what they are doing or how they are doing and who with, etc. There is a direct correlation between being “in the know” and the specificity and fervor of my prayers. I imagine that this is the case for others as well, am I right?
Those who know me know that I’ve been waiting a long time to kick off preparation to move to East Asia to participate in His work overseas. The feeling I have is that of a kid on Christmas morning, waiting eagerly in anticipation of opening all of the gifts beneath the Christmas Tree. Only this time, this “kid” has been waiting for quite a while to open up his “gift.” Continue reading