24-Hour Prayer

"How was your time in the prayer room?"  I asked Pang as she shut the door behind her.
"So good.  I didn't want to come out, but it was the next person's turn." She responded.

As a community we have been learning a lot about prayer here at BJD.  Pang knows she can pray anywhere at any time, but there is something special about being part of 24 hour intercession.  Everyone who participated by taking an hour to pray in the prayer room on Saturday seemed to really enjoy it. 

Here's a few of our findings:
*We have been learning about listening to God.  If we are to "be still and know" that He is God, out lips can't be moving. 
*We have been finding rest and refreshment in him as we hear him whisper to us, "Come my child, sit on my lap and let me comfort you." 
*We have seen of the power and authority behind the name in which we pray, Jesus. 
*We have been reminded that our prayers are pleasing to him, as "golden bowls full of incense" before the Lamb. (Revelation 5:8)  They are pleasing because when we pray, we are declaring that God is the only one who can take care of the problem.  Then when the problem is resolved, we can give him the glory because we can't take any credit for fixing it.