This coming Sunday we will resume our series on prayer. All of us have experienced "failed" prayers. We prayed with as much faith as we can muster but to no avail. Now what?
Effective prayer requires you to know the God you are praying to. This Sunday we will try and open the door to that understanding. We are going to get involved in getting to know God.
To give you a little teaser about how our God operates, let me take you to a story from the Old Testament found in 2nd Kings chapter 5.
We meet a man named Naaman, a commander in an army. He was a big shot but also a man of valor according to the bible. Naaman could represent any one of us today. Naaman was stricken with the dreaded disease Leprosy, the cancer of the time. Naaman hears about a guy named Elisha, a guy who would pray to the God of Israel, who would then heal the person he prayed for. Naaman hears of Elisha thru a young girl that his army had captured on one of his raids. A young Israelite girl.
Naaman decides to go see this Elisha deciding that he would give it a try! He shows up a Elisha's house but Elisha does not even come down to greet him. Instead, Elisha sends Naaman a message by one of his servants. The message read, Go wash in the Jordan river seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean."
Now ask yourself, if you had a serious disease, would you pay any attention to let's say a 10 year old little girl? A girl that you don't even know? And imagine if this 10 year old little girl came up to you and said, "Go see so and so and he will heal you?" Be honest. Would you give that suggestion any credible thought? ….probably not!
But what if you did? You go see this probable crack pot who won't even see you in person, and he sends you a hand written message that says, "Go to the Mississippi river down by the Arch and wash in it seven times to get healed." Now how many of you would still be with the program?
We worship an interesting, mysterious God. If you don't know Him you will miss Him which means you are probably missing the answers to your prayers! A life that is committed to knowing God will be a very interesting and amazing journey!
Bring someone to church this Sunday to get in on this amazing series on prayer. Praise Community Fellowship is about helping people get to know and enjoy God in their daily life!
You can read the Bible account of Naaman Here.
See you this Sunday. Love, pastor kent
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