I have had several questions about why have I been spending so much time on prayer lately and less on teaching. In addition, I have gotten more response about the prayer requests than on any of the teaching blogs; more than a whole year’s worth of responses on the teaching blogs. That is good, that means people are out there praying and that is one of the reasons I have added the prayer requests. I will be honest with you, the main reason I have put the prayer requests in is that I saw the gut wrenching turmoil the families were going through, and felt that the only thing I could do to help was to let the situations be known and to ask for prayer.
I believe in the power of prayer so much. I have seen it do wonders. My favorite example is when my kids were younger we had explained to them that all these hand places, (fortune telling) as we called them because of the big hand out front, were bad and that God forbid them in the Bible. Therefore, we made a pact with them that every time we passed one we would pray that they would go out of business. At that time the kids were big into dance and two or three times a week they would go into Houston and they would pass two of these hand places, so they would pray going and coming that the places would go out of business. After about a year and a half, in the same week, both of the hand places went out of business. You talk about a testimony to my children that prayer works. I remember how excited they both were when they told me that both of the hand places went out of business. Nothing is impossible with God.
I know that the prayers of all you of have helped both families. The Bible tells us
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Therefore, we are following scripture by praying for one another and I know there are righteous people out there so their prayers avail much.
I believe I will continue to add prayer requests, but I will go back to adding in teaching blogs. I will try to have the best of both worlds in my blog.
I would also like to add that I get a lot of feedback on FaceBook but I am going to be traveling more for Brad’s Briandrops. Therefore, I do not always get messages all that well. I do have a blackberry so I always get e-mails, so please e-mail me at braindrops@earthlink.net. I will get them and respond. I will always pray for you and your family just let me know. I may not post all the requests on the blog, just the big ones. However, I will be praying for all of the requests, not just the ones that are posted to the blog. If I could only say one thing, it would be that I am always praying and I would be honored to do it for you.
In addition, if you would like me to come speak at your church, Sunday school, Small group, etc. let me know and we can work out a date.
