Always Praying

by Zebbie Brewster

Idrug myself to church that Sunday night! I love going to church, and it is a blessing to still be able to do so. Ask anyone who is no longer physically able to go, and they will tell you how they miss the Christian fellowship. Yet, that Sunday night, it was like I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. I needed encouraging badly, and was hopeful that I would get it that night. Like a car

whose lights will come on to let you know that your car needs attention, my faith light had come on.

I was in the right place to get my needs met. I have spent a lifetime going to this church, as we lived a mile from the church, and my parents had always faithfully taken our family there. In my lifetime of being there I have seen a lot of changes. Saints of God have gone home, and we would see new members coming into the church. I have never failed to see God be faithful to our church and continue to save sinners. It is God’s house, and He is in the prayer answering business. Take time and remember some of the prayers He has answered and it will help fill that faith back up.

I remember we used to get to church early on Sunday night and have prayer for the women before the service started. On one Sunday night, as we were praying around 6 p.m., my brother had been in a bad wreck but his life was spared. I look back on that now in wonder at how God’s presence was so very real in that prayer room and with my brother. Ask anyone if prayers make the difference, and I hope they can say that they do and have always made the difference.

I remember another time on a Wednesday night prayer service, I asked for prayers. The church met in the altar and sent up prayers for my husband who was having a heart attack and on the way to the hospital for emergency treatment. To say that in the midst of the storm, you can feel God’s presence and peace with you is so wonderful. God may not always take you out of the storm, but He will be by your side always. My husband was able to get well and come home those many years ago. I thank God for answered prayers then and now. Just to know that God will never leave us or forsake us is a promise to hold onto always. “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5).

As Christians, we are saved by faith and we live by faith. Holding onto a God who loves always through all things. “O Give thanks unto the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north and from the south” (Psalm 107:1-3).

God knows where we are at all times. He is as close as that heart felt prayer that you send up right now. May I encourage you to keep trusting in God. He will never fail you, and His love will sustain you through all things. It was those praise reports and testimonies that Sunday night that I heard that filled my faith tank back up. Praise God for that!

About The Author Zebbie Brewster is an active member at Perennial Springs Baptist Church.

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