Where a Few Gather

The chickens are gone.  This is when the work REALLY starts on our place.  Dan and I both work hard in the barns for about 2 days at getting the manure out.  I asked if my in-laws would consider taking 3 kids for a sleep over so that I would not have to worry about them as well.  No problem!  Now we were down to 2 kids from Friday night to Sunday morning.  This got me thinking...maybe, just maybe I could go to the prayer meeting Saturday morning before we started work.  Dan agreed to take 2 boys out for breakfast on Saturday morning so I could go!

I am so very, very thankful I went.  What a time of blessing!  There were only 4 of us.  We sang and then our pastor read a portion of a psalm and spoke about it.  Then we shared some prayer requests.  The others had taken a pen and paper with them to write things down.  Since this was my first time, I did not.

The atmosphere was calm and so relaxed.  It felt so natural, so right and good, to pray with others from the congregation.  One would pray on a certain topic and when they finished our pastor would finish with an amen.  Then the next one would pray over a certain topic and once again our pastor would finish with an amen.  We continued in this fashion until the list was prayed through.  Extra requests were mentioned along the way.  We finished by singin Psalm 63 (I LOVE that psalm) which really was so fitting.

It was a beautiful way to start the day, and it very much set the tone for the rest of my day.  On the way home I added my own private prayers to the mix of the prayers that we as a group had already brought to the throne of heaven.

All I can say is that I really want to go again.  I have 5 kids but I want to go again and I will look for a way to go again as well.  The blessing I received was worth waking up early  to an alarm clock.  It was worth the 35 minute drive.  I realized afresh that this is my family.  These are the people I'm going to see in heaven.  I want to pray with my congregation.  I want to pray for my congregation.  Thank you Lord for these desires.  Thank you Lord for providing a way for a busy mom to find a place of quiet worship and sweet fellowship with believers.  Thank you Lord.  Oh how you've blessed me today.