God answered prayers this Easter
We came into this year praying that God would open our eyes to see that he’s moving in our lives and embolden us to give testimony to that. I’m marking Easter 2025 as a season in which God is answering those prayers! First, I’ve been asking the LORD for a prayer team that will listen to God and pray with us, expecting God to move and to speak.
Since September we have had a prayer team every week, faithfully, quietly, listening to God before the service for his heart for the congregation and offering prayer ministry during communion.
Some weeks during Lent, all our prayer team were engaged in prayer during the whole of communion.
We are seeking God together, listening for him and encouraging one another. Amen!
I believe that vulnerable time in prayer together laid the foundation for the holy moment we shared together on Easter Sunday as 10 people shared their testimony on cardboard. We named a word that described how we were experiencing life before Jesus and what defines life now that we are walking with Jesus. We bore witness to the transformation out of judgmentalism, loneliness, hunger, desperation and into grace-filled process, togetherness, satisfaction and deliverance. AMEN!
THEN everyone was given the opportunity to offer words of gratitude to God on their own piece of “cardboard” and place it as an offering to God. What a gift to offer God! God, we thank you for the many stories of you changing us. You have written so many stories of joy, hope and trust (the most common “after” stories). And still, Lord, we ask you to come and move even more. Awaken our own hearts and our neighbors to the LIFE that is on offer through your death and resurrection. May you receive all the glory from us and from our stories. Amen.
Let me invite you this week after Easter to a moment of reflection: can you tune in right now, in this moment, to the presence of God with you right where you are? Recover the awe and delight that he is with you and he loves you. Join me with a prayer of gratitude: God, thank you that…
You have given me fellow worshipers to pray with.
You have shared with me fresh stories of you at work in our lives.
You are with me now, and you will be with me always. Amen.
If it’s been a while since you’ve been sure God is speaking, let me encourage you to come and receive prayer this Sunday. I am so grateful to have you as part of this truly wonderful community.
With joy and thanksgiving,
Pastor Megan
