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There is something about prayer being evidence-bas

There is something about prayer being evidence-based. But we have to pray through to get the evidence. Answered prayer is the evidence.

We have seen God answer big prayers. We have also learned that an answered prayer doesn’t mean life becomes easy or predictable.

Answered prayer changes our perspective.

Read the whole story at Bravester, Answered Prayer Changes Perspective

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"We don’t pray because we are certain we know what

"We don’t pray because we are certain we know what God will do. We pray because we are learning to trust God who knows what to do." --Brenda Seefeldt Amodea

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This is what I have been learning about prayer. W

This is what I have been learning about prayer.

We as a church, thus where two or more are gathered, have prayed for big things and received big answers to prayer. We celebrate these as miracles. We also need to continue to pray.

But how I pray is different after our church has received these big miracles. And they are big!

I struggled to lead my church in prayer with the slowness that healing and justice took for these dear people in my life. I had an expectation of God to work a whole lot faster. I worried that our many, many, many prayers would end with a death or an incarceration so “God, do something now!!” became our prayers. I openly shared this wavering with my people at church as I continued to pray out loud with my fears.

And "suddenly," a prayer was answered miraculously.

I'm still learning.

At Halloween, why are so many people so fascinated

At Halloween, why are so many people so fascinated with evil and death?

Halloween began as a night to face mystery and hold on to hope. It was a night to recognize that evil exists.

Today, Halloween stands as America’s second-largest retail holiday, in the billions. We haven’t gotten rid of evil. We’ve turned our fascination and fear of evil into a billion-dollar business. We seek evil out in haunted houses and ghost hunting where we can see it and leave it behind controlling it with our dollars.

Halloween reveals our curiosity about evil. Even as we deny the existence of evil. We don’t want to really live in a supernatural world. We want to live in a world we can control and explain away. We have reduced the Bible to the parts we can explain.

The Bible is filled with supernatural realities: angels, demons, spiritual powers, principalities, divine council, spiritual warfare, miracles, visions, supernatural encounters. Yet much of the modern church tends to become quiet around these passages. Not denying these things, but focusing on the parts that we pastors can explain. Because we pastors don’t want to appear too “charismatic” or strange. The result is that we can up with a limited view of the Bible's world which does recognize the existence of evil.

Evil is an inescapable experience for all of us and yet we have been given limited language for describing it. So for a month we watch horror movies and put skeletons in our yards to acknowledge evil while still making it abstract.

The Way of Jesus answers the questions that Halloween asks. What do we do with evil?”

Not by denying it or dressing it up, but by declaring that evil is real, defeated, and temporary. Christianity doesn’t look away from that darkness; it looks straight through it to the cross--the place where evil thought there was a victory but...

Where Halloween flirts with fear, The Way of Jesus faces fear with resurrection. It proclaims that Jesus entered death and came out alive, not to minimize evil but to empty it of its final power for all 12 months of the year.

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