The Power of Prayer

We recently returned from our speaking blitz, where we traveled to N & S Carolina as well as Tennessee challenging teens to step out of their comfort zones and get involved in missions. And let me tell you, it was an incredible experience. The first night we had 2 performances at a youth group and it was awesome, we had kids really interested in getting out there. That's when the phone calls came. We got phone call after phone call of churches cancelling on us for various reasons. What had been planned as a very full week, just became empty and we had 18 people to keep occupied. So we started praying.We made a few phone calls and it turned out that others had been praying too...for help. And guess what, we were as much an answer to their prayers as they were to ours. We cleaned out a coffee shop/ music venue, that was in need of some serious cleaning. We partnered with a church in their local ministry. We found out a woman's ceiling collaped and there had been an old chimney that she knew nothing about. So we spent the day cleaning soot from her house and doing load after load of laundry. And we did all this with prayer as our theme. It was incredible. One day, what started out as a little prayer walk turned into three and a half hours of intercession for their city. When a student was hurting or upset about something other students would come alongside and pray for them. Everytime we had prayer time every single person would pray out. It was amazing to me. I am on staff, I am supposed to be reminding them about prayer. But they reminded me. They taught me the power that God gives us with prayer.