One generation will declare Your works to the next and will proclaim Your mighty acts.—Psalm 145:4
One of our responsibilities as pastors is to remind our people of the day to day faithfulness of God for all generations. I realized the other day that I’ve unwittingly embraced a habit which has kept me from doing this as effectively as I could be. I don’t write down prayer requests.
There is no deep theological reason why I haven’t written down prayer requests. I just have a decent memory and I figure it is good to use it. And so I usually just remember the things that are requested and I go around the room and echo these prayers back to the Lord as I lead the group in prayer. Seldom have I forgotten a prayer request, and so I figured this strategy worked for me.
Until a few weeks ago, that is….
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