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NEED PRAYER? Do you need prayer or want our prayer group to pray for someone? Email Brother Barry and let him know your requests Email: Brother Barry   Devotionals When Prayers Go Unanswered! A recent family crisis brought home to Pete Greig just how supportive a network can be. One year into helping to spearhead the 24-7 Prayer Initiative (a 24 hour a day prayer ministry), his wife, Samie, woke in the night paralyzed down one side. "We rushed into the hospital and found out she had a brain tumor," Greg recalls. "That mobilized incredible prayer support that moved us profoundly. The prayer from people who didn’t know us probably meant the most - because you can only really explain that in terms of the love of Christ. By God’s kindness, Samie’s surgery was successful, and we’re now on the long journey to recovery." He describes the last couple of years as "schizophrenic." Says Greig, "I’ve seen the most remarkable answers to prayer in all of my life - our Web site is constantly jammed with amazing testimonies to the way that prayer works - but at the same time I’ve been wrestling with some of the most painful unanswered prayers of my life." Greig observes that Christians are quick to trumpet stories of answered prayer but can be very slow to admit the reality of unanswered prayer. "I think God has probably taught me as much about unanswered prayer on this journey that we’re on as He has about answered prayer," he points out. "Real faith isn’t frightened of unanswered prayer. If you have a formula that somehow will guarantee you answered prayer in any given situation, you don’t have faith. Ulitmately we have to learn to celebrate weakness." He believes that victorious Christianity understands that we live on "a great big time-delay switch" - some prayers won’t be answered until after death, and somehow in weakness there is strength. So I don’t feel very successful in my prayer life. I don’t even feel very good at prayer. But I can’t help but talk to God about all that I’m going through and walk with Him in it. If you asked me how to define prayer, I would say this: Prayer is weakness talking with God. If someone is talking out of strength, it’s not prayer - it’s showing off. Prayer is weakness talking with God!!" Charisma Magazine     Sunday School 9 a.m. • Worship 10:15 a.m. • Nursery available     Come Worship with us...         visit us at The Buzz at the Southeast Missourian   Space Provided by Velosity Electronics in Cape Girardeau eric@velosityelectronics.com Web Design by : Mitchell Media Services