Prayer & the Kingdom

This prayer thing is really shaking things up...in fact, tonight we're doing a Holy Spirit Workshop where the facilitator and her ministry team have been fasting for a month and I can wait to see what God's gonna do!

Over the past few weeks we've had testimonies emailed to us about babies being born as an answer to prayer following a traumatic miscarriage...how a gal's chest had been hurting and painful for several days and she was fearful of dying because her dad had died of lung cancer. She has asthma and sinus problems and was becoming more afraid by the day. But then she received prayer. People laid their hands on her and prayed for her at a class one evening. Here's what she wrote to me:

So tonight sitting in community 101 I had this pain and was feeling concern. I like prayer but feel embarresed in front of a circle at a table but I saw John look at me and thought he was going to pull it out of me..anyway I didn't ask for prayer at the table but went up for prayer for the gift of prophesy.I was standing up there at the front feeling a bit embarresed because no one came to lay hands on me . Then Tim, at the last minute came up and put his hand on my back.While Tim was praying for me my fingers started twitching and I felt this huge warmth deep in my chest and core of my body and it radiated down from the level of his hand.Well, after prayer I walked back to get my son and I took in a deep breath which usually hurts but it didn't hurt. I was thinking about it when I walked back to you and must have looked perplexed and you asked me about it. Only then when I told Tim of the percieved healing he told me that on the way to church that night he thought God told him he was going to heal someone tonight.He was flushed and amazed because he wasn't used to hearing something like that.

She concluded with: Isn't God amazing! WOW!

What if we turned to him with all of our needs, all of our concerns, all of our worries? What could happen? Some of you may say, well, nothing will happen -- and that could be true! But what if something did happen? What if God did respond -- just like we've seen in the two examples above? How would that change your life or mine?

Try it -- try prayer...I'm encouraging our church body at the Vineyard to try it and to make it a daily part of their lives. I'm trying to grow in my time spent talking with God each day. Do I fall short some days? Oh yeah! But some days -- WOW! What an amazing connection with Him! I want more of that for myself and for you! Try it!

God's blessings to ya!