What Drives Us To Pray?
Last Friday night, as a church body, a few hundred people gathered in Des Moines to pray. Why? Because we know that God "hears the prayers of the upright" (Proverbs 15:8) and because we know and trust that He delights in our prayers. We know this, so we do it.
What is the by-product of these prayer times? The easy answer to this is "answered prayers", but I think that it's more than that. As we join to pray, it unites our hearts. It unites our minds. It unites us as a body of believers in a way that honors Christ. It helps us to focus on the goal of our faith. Paul exhorts the saints in Philippians 2 to "make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose."
Our prayer for the saints of La Vid has been that they would be growing together, unified for the sake of the Gospel. That they would grow in their love and devotion to one another as they grow to love Christ more and more and that the outpouring of this would be fruit in their lives and fruit in the form of souls won for Christ.
Tonight, after breaking bread together (and I do mean breaking bread - Jordan ate 5 pieces before his meal was even served) we joined together in prayer, and it was beautiful. It was beautiful to hear the hearts of the saints unite in different languages, one language, the language of God: the language of prayer.
We thank you for your prayers for us and for the people of the Dominican Republic. We are truly grateful and know that God is at work. There is much more to share, but we'll leave that for tomorrow.
Shaly Moyal
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