In fervent prayer
A Pastor was leading a time of prayer in his home, adjacent
to the church building. He and the
church members were fervently in prayer, when suddenly they heard an angry mob
attacking and ransacking the church building next door.
The mob had come from across the road, where they’d been
meeting according to their own religion.
But they’d felt disturbed and unable to fulfil their religious practices.
Escorted to safety
Thankfully the Christians managed to get away unharmed
before the mob then entered the Pastor’s house and destroyed things there too. It was a frightening experience for them.
The connection
What intrigued me when I heard this, was that the people who
formed the mob somehow knew that their own praying and religious activity was
being disturbed by the Christians across the road – and they wanted to stop it.
They knew it was the Christians in prayer who were
disrupting things! They didn’t put the
ineffectiveness of what they were doing down to anything else.
This is a real, practical example of prayer impacting the
spiritual climate and disrupting other spiritual powers.
We shouldn’t take prayer lightly!
