By Steve

Making sense of prayer:

Sorry, I am not going to really make sense of prayer, but someone has been praying for me for 30 years and her prayer is beginning to make sense. Maybe its better to watch prayer work itself out than it is to try to understand prayer.

When I was very young, a lady in our church, Mrs. Carleton, began praying for me. She prays for many people, each of us in the same way. She prays the words of the Psalm number that match your birthday. My birthday is on the 2nd day of the month, so she prays words from Psalm 2 for me. Year after year she has sent me birthday cards reminding me of this, telling me she has been praying and specifically what for. She tells me often that what God puts on her heart through this Psalm for me is that one day I will have ministry influence across the nations. Okay I would say, as a teenager growing up caring mostly for football and girls and trying to live up to as cool as I thought I was.

I never really understood what this prayer meant or would ever mean. Now I see it working itself out.

Citywalk is a church in San Diego. People from all over the world come here, and I talk often with people from far places. It is my hope that Citywalk will influence people from abroad. I just returned from Africa. Yes, I got to ministry across the nations, but it is only the beginning. We are now in the works of starting a microlending partnership, I am working on the early phases of a Christian leadership development school for Ugandan pastors and leaders, from our work while in Africa, we hope to get sponsorships for over 200 children which houses, feeds, educates and gives limited health care (for just $35/month) and we (Ali and me) are now pursuing adopting the boy that we have been sponsoring, Muwanguzi Perez. Who knows where all this may lead one day, but I believe that 30 years of prayer is beginning to make sense.