44 hours of Prayer

Over the weekend our church staged a 44 hour prayer room. The prayer room itself was amazing. It was set up with "stations" to help encourage prayer in different areas. There were stations for the community, our church, our friends and family, the world, our selves, and offering praise. In addition, there was plenty of pens / paper / markers for people to write their prayers and express their thoughts / feelings.

People signed up for one our slots and mine was from 4AM to 5Am on Sunday morning. Since my slot was towards then end of the weekend, I got to see all of the prayers and contributions of the people who had prayed before me. I ended up spending half of my time in the room reading over other people's prayers. The rest of the time went very quickly for me as I tried to break out of my selfish personal prayers and focus on the church and the community. It was a great encouragement for me and a great reminder of how dynamic and exciting prayer can be.

JE

PS - don't feel sorry for me for having to get up and pray from 4AM to 5Am. When I got home, I slept until 11:30!