A New Way

When our small intercessory prayer group had to stop meeting in person, I felt completely discouraged. The five of us had met every Thursday evening in our church and spent an hour or more in prayer together.

But despite my discouragement, through technology, our prayer group grew and became even more effective for us.

So many people now possess mobile phones, allowing prayer requests to be circulated instantaneously to all of us. We even receive prayer requests from people of other faiths.

Our prayer chain has many more links than the five original members, and our prayer time is no longer confined to an hour on Thursdays. We can now lift our requests to God on any day and at any time.

We can always trust God, our loving Father, to be at work creating new opportunities to serve and new and different ways for us to accomplish his purpose.

Prayer: Dear loving God, as we pray for those who seek prayer, we also pray for ourselves, knowing that you will receive and answer even the humblest prayer. Thank you for helping us to be a part of your kingdom’s work by serving those in need. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen