At the seminar I am teaching in Halifax, Nova Scotia I taught today that a great blessing of prayer is peace and freedom from anxiety, and then I shared that I didn’t fret about things much any more. Tonight I led a Concert of Prayer for a group of churches that had been at the seminar and gathered together to pray for their city and their churches. At one point I had each of the pastors share one major need or concern for their churches that we could all pray for. Each one shared and then we all prayed for them and then the next one shared. It was a very special time with a great sense of unity being felt and verbalized by all those that were there. Then someone asked if I would share something that was a big need for our church that they could all pray for. I shared about our building needing to be finished by June 23rd before our permit ran out otherwise we would have to start all over with another building permit, plans review, and lots of extra costs which could include major changes because of changes in building codes since we first took out the building permit 8 years ago. I said that if we ended up having to do that, that I thought I would just shoot myself. People prayed sincerely for me and our church and that we would indeed finish the building. Afterwards an older lady came up and said that she was bothered by my statement that I would shoot myself in light of what I had been teaching that day about my level of peace and freedom from anxiety. I felt duly reproved for my poor use of words, and told her she was right, that I was sorry that in an attempt to be funny I had been unwise in saying that, and then I said Thank you for being willing to share with me and help me. She smiled and said “you are welcome” and then She said that she would faithfully pray for me that God would do wonderful things through my life.