Comments on: 10:00 Saturday Night

By: LA

LA — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:05:08 +0000

I don’t have any neat stories on coaching prayer, per se, but your post (and remark that leaders should be coaching prayer) reminded me of an article I read yesterday at Crosswalk.com.
In the article, Joe McKeever talks about how when pastors pray from the pulpit true and honest prayers that really bring the congregation before the throne of God come out of the intimacy of their prayer life during the week and that people automatically learn the style of prayer that the pastor gives. So if it is lifeless and stale and repetitious, they learn that…
Even though I’m not a pastor and am not teaching/leading as often now as I have in the past, it really challenged me to not skimp on my times with God and allow my prayers to flow from that – rather than simply going through the motions!

By: Pastor John

Pastor John — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:28:00 +0000

I’ve been really enjoying bedtime prayers with my 4 year old son lately. Taking ideas from the book, we have been working on prayer being about a conversation with God – no two times are identical. He liked it the first time and wanted to pray “just like last time” the next night. But, I explained to Jackson that I didn’t remember exactly how we prayed, but that we start our conversations fresh each time. Jackson will ask me to pray first, then we pray together. I’ll ask him questions about his relationship with God, and then we pray together through the answers. We go back and forth thinking about different aspects of God’s love for us and those we know. It sure beats the old way. Jackson really looks forward to prayer time with daddy. I look forward to prayer time with Daddy, too.