Joel Stone
Weekly Report #5
2-23-07
Conversation on preparation for prayer.

This week I met with Pastor Judy and discussed my preparation for the prayer that I will be leading next month for the Sunday night service.

I had never really formally met Pastor Judy and in doing so, I was taken back by her presence. She is a sincere and humble person, and I could tell throughout the whole meeting that she really cared about me. She asked some questions to get to know me a little bit, and then she prayed to open our time together.

She told me that she was going to have me lead the pastoral prayer for a service in March. I was intimidated yet excited about doing this. I have never formally gotten up in front of a group of mixed generations and prayer. So she gave me some thoughts and ideas on what to do for the preparation of my prayer. She also stressed the importance of preparation and writing out that prepared prayer. She shared with me her thoughts on writing out prayers and how she came to her believe now that the spirit truly can work through written prayers.

I hadn’t really thought much about this, but that is what I thought before, it seems so insincere when a person writes out a prayer, but it made so much sense what she said. God gives us the ability to prepare and the spirit can talk to us during that preparation time and it also gives the spirit more time to work in that prayer.

I really enjoyed meeting with Pastor Judy this week and talking with her and getting her views and thoughts on corporate prayer.