I want to tell you a story of some believers on the other side of the world. This is another one of the many stories I got from block class (most things recently seem to be coming from there). My teacher tells of a group of believers who met together to pray, and when they were done and had no time left, they came to the conclusion that the had too much to pray for in the short time they had set aside. And so they came up with the idea of once a month, spending all of Friday night in prayer.
My teacher asked, "All night? And what time did they finish?" He was thinking that all night meant maybe till 12 - 2 A.M. or something.
The man responded, "9 the next morning."
My teacher had another question. "What happened then?"
The man: "When we finished at 9, we realized that we still had too much to pray for... so we decided to meet EVERY week and spend the whole night in prayer." And he went on to say that they had been doing this ever since.
This is one of those true stories that is so convicting. These people literally spend HOURS each week in prayer. And I spend how much??? How about the average American Christian? I wonder what would happen if I spent more time in prayer? If my whole campus spent more time in prayer? If my church and your church spent more time in prayer? If every American Christian would spend more time in prayer?
It seems that yet again there exists another aspect of the Christian life that some believers around the world have gotten right, and that we here in America have lost or never figured out. Maybe this is where it starts if we want a change in American Christianity?
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