James 5:16 “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
Recently we invited several folks from our church family to come over to our house simply for an evening of prayer. It was on a Friday night no less, but we were encouraged that our den was filled with 10-11 good friends who spent an hour interceding with us and for us. Perhaps we should have done this much sooner. It was a definite boost. And, I dare say that several prayers have been answered already.
What was the focus of our time? As you probably know, we have been fervently trusting the Lord to allow us to move to Orlando to begin our new role with Campus Crusade for Christ’s Global Technology Office. Several things haven’t exactly worked out according to our plan and timing. Obviously the Lord is in control yet we wanted to seek His will. We wanted to ask Him for some breakthroughs and simply for us to rejoice in Him working even through frustrations and delays.
It was a very good time in His presence and we felt more connected to our good friends from church who love us so dearly.
To guide our prayer time, I made an outline with Scriptures to focus on and general themes. You can see the file (a pdf file – open with Adobe Reader) here: https://handsheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/2006_Hands_Prayer_Meeting_Notes.pdf
I thought this might be helpful for anyone who is praying through similar issues.Â
Also see what we shared at church during the worship service a couple of months ago.