Every year when the great coach Vince Lombardi gathered his team together before the first practice he would stand before them holding a football and say, "Gentlemen, this is a football." In doing so he was signifying that they the first step for the upcoming season was to always go back to the basics...it's a football. The game takes tackling, blocking, running and passing.
It's the same way in the Christian life. In times of dryness, spiritually, we need to go back to the basics, both individually and corporately.
This has been reinforced in my mind the past three weeks. Let's get back to the basics, specifically the basics of prayer.
Last Saturday we gathered together in the main auditorium for our prayer time instead of the West Chapel. We will be gathering there for a season on Saturdays because that is where the Word of God is preached, people are convicted and reached with the Gospel.
We walked through the rows of chairs, praying. We walked through the rows in the balcony, praying. We walked through the choir loft, praying.
I have also challenged the ushers to spend time in prayer beginning on Sunday's at 8:30 A.M.
Gang, we need to get back to prayer. God's presence.
More than perfection and performance what we need (and it is so obvious to us) is the presence of god.
Will you join me? Will you in your own private times of prayer, lift up a prayer for our church? Will you consider joining us for prayer on Saturday morning? Will you join me in coming to Sunday services, "prayed up, powered up and pumped up" so that you can minister to others and worship God in spirit and in truth?
Last Sunday night we had a great time in prayer. I believe that the depth, spiritually of the services was in direct proportion to the amount of time we spent in prayer on Saturday. Nothing more, nothing less.
Pray, pray, pray, God is calling us to pray!
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