Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Encouragement of Prayer

This journey called prayer is a never ending one. It's filled with high places and low places, mountains and valleys. It's a road often vibrant with color and dimly lit with the dawn of a new day. It's a journey covered with streaming tears or hilarious laughter. But, it's a journey worth taking!

If you've been messin' around with your prayer life, let me encourage you to kick it up a notch. For those of you who begin praying and find there isn't enough to pray about, just look around! Who are the people you interface with on a daily basis - coworkers, sales people, teachers, even the mailman. What neighborhoods do you drive through on your way each day? What things touch your heart as you surf the net or remote the TV? And, perhaps most importantly, praying for your brothers and sisters in the church!

God made you the way he has, and placed you where he's placed you so that you can get plugged into the world at your fingertips. Sorry, but the excuse that you don't know who or what to pray for doesn't fly with me today.

Today we have many things to be praying for. I've listed a couple of blogs at the right of this screen to introduce you to two families I'm aware of who are going through tough times. Is there a story or a blog you'd like to share? Send me a note, I'll be glad to post them here.

Jeremiah 33:3 - "Call to me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."

Call on Him, you might just find yourself traveling a new adventure!

- author, Cindy Daniels