Day of Praise

Mo, Dec 10 "Day of Praise"

"There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!" Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted." - Acts 20:8-12

We have this chair at our church. I'm going to start calling it the revival chair. Maybe even the resurrection chair.

We use it during our monthly prayer and healing service at our 5 p.m. worship. The service itself is amazing as our praise band calmly plays a few inspiring, prayer, healing, and Holy Spirit songs.

There are candles lit all around the dimly lit worship space.

We move from the songs to a time of free prayer. The guitars play beautiful instrumental while people either pray quietly by themselves or go to the tables that have candles and prayer requests or go outside and pray God's anointing on the property or go over to somebody else and pray God's blessing on them.

Then everyone is invited to gather around the chair.

There were 25 of us last night. That's a lot of Lutherans in a prayer and healing service.

Somebody, at the Spirit's moving, sits in the chair and we all lay hands on them and anoint them with oil in the shape of the cross and pray over them both in our hearts and aloud.

We'd be here all day if I listed all the miraculous things that I've seen happen to people prayed for...

And to those who are praying.

God still does miracles today.

Believe.

And pray.

P.S. Everyone's welcome at the prayer services.

Have a great day. And don't forget to pray.

Praise God!




Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson