I heard so many people tonight at JBC’s Saturday Easter service say that it was our best Easter service ever! I am not sure what all the criteria in their minds were for declaring it the best, but I declared it amazing, wonderful, inspiring, God-anointed, and a couple of other adjectives, I stopped short of saying it was the best because I can’t remember last year’s Easter service. 🤪

We had a JBC record number of hours of prayer at our five days of prayer this past week so I knew that our Easter services were going to be very God anointed, and Saturday night was that for sure and tomorrow’s will be even more blessed, I am confident of that!

I have been at this prayer thing for so many years now that it is as sure as gravity in my mind and heart, when there is no prayer there is no blessing, when there is a little prayer there is a little blessing, when there is a lot of prayer there is a lot of blessing. It is a law of God. For as much as I push and nag about prayer there are still so many people in our church whose participation in JBC’s prayer ministry is very small to none.

It is because their faith in what God will do if they do pray together with their church family is very small. They don’t believe that God hears their prayers, they don’t believe that anything beyond a single prayer request matters to God. They believe God is going to do what he is going to do and our prayers will make zero difference.

Those who are non-prayers in our church reduce the amount of blessing that we all receive from God I am sure. We are a local church with a name and we meet together, we worship together, we take communion together and God’s will is that we pray together. The non- prayers make me sad because of their lack of involvement in the most important ministry in our church. I still am nice to them, I even fish with some of them, but they do make me sad.