PRAYER AND MEDICATION!
The wonderful old soul almost got it right. He meant to say that a Christian needed prayer and meditation. But it came out as prayer and medication!
Or maybe he got it about right after all. I’ve just come from the hospital. The doctors did their best with medicine. We prayed together for healing grace. Prayer and medication! Not either-or but both-and.
Someone else put it like this: Work like it all depends on you, but pray like it all depends on God. Not either-or but both-and.
But you do have to get the order right.
You can do more than pray, but you can’t do more until you pray. We want to become more intentional about prayer in our church. So we are taking three simple steps to start this year.
I have asked a small group of people to be a Pastor’s Prayer Shield for me. They are taking it as their special charge to pray God’s protection and wisdom for their Sr. Pastor.
Susan Leonard will be leading a class on “Learning to Pray Better Together” starting Feb. 6 at 3:00 PM. Sign up. We need godly intercessors as our front-line spiritual warriors.
Starting Feb. 1 we will have a prayer time from noon-1 PM in the Prayer Room. No sign ups needed. You can come for all or any part of the time. I will be there to help lead. Individual prayer is great. But we’re even better together (our 2011 year theme).
In Christ, Bob