A prayer turns life into a wonderful and romantic adventure. In what way? By intertwining God’s conceived historical plan with what we long for, what we think of, what we strive for, what we ask for.
At the last week we had such a camp that has been evangelical, kids, and church-camp at the same time. Basically, our youth served to children, so that an adults, meanwhile, could listen to the seminar, which has been led by our pastor.
Paul Miller’s book “A Praying Life” became our camp guide on the subject of prayer. Certainly, we’ve read the Word of God, and prayed, and fellowshipped, and sang, and played. Yet, most of our time we spent learning to cry out to God for a minor things in simplicity. For instance, some of us openly shared that previous search of some lost thing was totally mundane challenge for them. But, from this time on, the dependence on God started displaying itself even in such a “tiny things.”
Yeah, precisely this truth that there are no trivial things and accidents in our life is one of a pivotal truth in this book. We usually pray, when we realize that our own resource is depleted in a particular situation. But the truth is that we do not have such a resource in ourselves without God. The prayer itself does not relieve of responsibility that is imposed on the individual. Prayer opens the eyes to see of how God is working His part in this process, when human beings are still responsible.
Praise to God for such a wonderful and exciting time!
Artem Prystupa,
from the church “Community of the Good Shepherd”
