At Circle Church we tried to make the prayers as meaningful as possible. During the Christmas season while praising God as a congregation that He is Love, I brought my three little children to the platform—Randall, Melissa, and baby Joel. Holding the fat little number two son in my arms, I began my prayer:
Father,
I come to You this morning a father like Yourself. I appreciate Your gift of these children to me. I love them very much.
If it were required of me to send any one of them to a world I knew ahead of time would be hostile and eventually demand their death, I would not do it. I consider myself to be a loving father.
You are a totally loving Father, and yet You were not like I am. You gave Your Son to a sinful world. I praise You for Your love to me and to my family and to all of us here that You did not act as I would have.
But that in love you sent Christ into the world…
One Sunday morning while Ka Tong was praising God for His wisdom and great understanding, a second person began to pray at the same time saying,
“God, I am pleased that You can hear many voices at one time. Obviously, people in the congregation will have difficulty sorting out the thoughts the two of us are expressing, but I know You won’t have such a problem. I praise You for Your wisdom…
As the dual prayer continued, the truth of God’s intelligence came vividly alive to the whole congregation. And, I believe God responded well to what was being prayed because we were demonstrating that we truly meant our praise.
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