The Family at Church is a little book divided into two sections; the first section talks about listening to sermons, and the second discusses prayer meetings. I especially enjoyed the second part of the book, and it made me really motivated to pray more.
Did you know that Christians in South Korea gather every morning to pray at 5:30 in the summer and 6:30 in the winter? And God has blessed that faithfulness with incredible revival and reformation in the last 50 years.
I remember when I was a teenager, our church's theme for one year was "expectation." I didn't really get it. Sure, God can do big things. "But does that mean we should expect them?" I thought. I think it is common for Christians in our culture to think that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, and God can't or won't do anything about it. We really don't care for God to do anything because we don't love our neighbors as we should. And not too mention we're just too lazy to devote ourselves to prayer.
Since that year, the word "expectation" has come to mind frequently as I doubt God's willingness and ability to work in our world. When we expect God to work, we pray differently, and we live differently.
This book was really inspiring in motivating me to pray more and to think of creative ways for our family to pray for God's work to be done.
On a related note, I wanted to post probably my favorite CCM song to go with this post - "What If His People Prayed" by Casting Crowns - but every video I've seen on YouTube has ridiculous pictures to go along with the lyrics. And I didn't want my blog to be associated with ridiculous pictures of Satan, etc. But you should still go listen to the song, read this book, and pray.
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