The Browning's

Here is a cliché that is true, prayer works.  About three weeks ago, as we were walking through the book of Jonah, God convicted me of something.  It is a lesson that I have learned repeatedly but I always seem to require a refresher.  That lesson is that nothing godly happens without prayer.  That week, we arrived at Jonah’s prayer in chapter two and I felt the weight that I had not mobilized my people to pray.

This all became even more painfully obvious when I met with another church planter and heard him tell his story about how his church prays together each week.  I was crushed, embarrassed, and ashamed.  But I took my spank’n and made some changes.  The next week our church gathered for prayer before the service and guess what happened . . .

Out of nowhere (and I mean nowhere) twenty new people walked in our door.  Now this is pertinent because our little church of forty just grew by 50%.  We kept praying and the next week twenty new people, on top of the twenty from the week before, showed up to worship God with us.  If you haven’t done the math in your head, our church doubled (from 40 to 80) in the course of two weeks!

There was only one variable that changed, Prayer.  Please keep praying for us.  God is doing great things down here and we are asking Him to do even more.  Would you ask God, on our behalf, to do great things in our midst?

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