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I am the student minister at a church in Saint Charles. I lead the team and work primarily with High school department. I love to teach and simply being with students. I hope you enjoy the thoughts that I have expressed and I look forward to hearing your opions.

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Francis Chan - Prayer

March 24th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

This morning while I was running at the gym I was listening to a podcast that featured Francis Chan. During the podcast the host asked a question that went something like this, “If you were to give any advice to a young leader what would it be?”

Francis then went on to say something that continues to stick with me. He said if I could give them any advice it would be “Pray.” To those of us in ministry that is not all that surprising. It was what he said shortly after that has stuck with me all morning. “I tell my staff if they are not praying for an hour a day about their ministries to let me know and I will hire someone who will.”

That is powerful to me. I often neglect taking the time to literally sit down and pray as God desires us to pray. The question that I am asking myself is how much is God really moving in my ministry since I am not giving him the time to pour into me nor am I listening to him long enough to hear him lead. I am sitting here thinking maybe there are other things in my life that could be going in a different direction if I would just give myself some time to pray.

I am not sure why, but prayer is not my spiritual gift. However, that is not reason to neglect time alone with God in prayer.

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  1. Comment by Nikomas on 24 March 2008:

    The fun part is watching God go when we do absorb ourselves in prayer. The hard part is remembering to do it from the beginning so we don’t screw up what God already has planned.

  2. Comment by Brian Eberly on 26 March 2008:

    That is powerful….and convicting. Thanks!

  3. Comment by Frank on 3 April 2008:

    Well, I agree totally with you. Even though prayer is not specifically a spiritual gift, it is a discipline we’re called to commit to each and everyday. But I find myself just like you bro, not intentionally finding time to pray, not just for myself and my family and my needs, but even for the ministry God has placed me over. And I think this really has the potential to make a difference if we’re not or we are doing it.

  4. Comment by Alex on 16 August 2008:

    Your blog is interesting!

    Keep up the good work!

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