Before my feet hit the floor today I prayed that God would help me to respond to what he was doing in and through me. (That should have been my first clue!) If you got a chance to read the prayer journal for today, you read the following from Mike Hurt’s prayer:
My prayer is that God will use 13 Firstfield as a place where ordinary people living in Montgomery County can come and find and experience Christian community in ways that radically change their purpose in life.
Then underneath the prayer was this suggestion:
Walk out in public and pray for the strangers that you pass, that they could come to know God and that God might bring some of them to Seneca Creek.
During a lunch meeting the waitress shared some life concerns and challenges. My friend and I offered to pray for her, which she gladly accepted. We sat for a few moments and brought her concerns before the God who could help her. She asked about the church, and I explained we met at Seneca Valley High School, and had just purchased a building in Gaithersburg. Turns out, she lives in the neighborhood around us! She was eager to learn about Seneca Creek, and I expect God will bring her there soon. I also expect that will radically change her purpose in life!
It was one more reminder of how God delights in puncturing our mundane activities and events with his incredible plans. Pray for God to use you today, and that includes the strangers you pass by. Then look out, because it’s going to happen!
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