Chain, chain, chain... chain of prayer

Apologies to Aretha F. for that title...

In the lead up to the event on the 5th of July, we spent a lot of time praying. We pray(ed) because we know that what we're involved in is bigger than us - it's something that God is doing. Also, we pray because we know that as humans, we stuff a lot of things up, and more than anything, we NEED God desperately to give us the strength, guidance, wisdom and life to be and do things that have forever value.

One of these times that we prayed was last Wednesday, 2nd of July. We had planned to have a bonfire with the youth and pray for the event on the 5th of July, but it was raining cats and dogs! Sidenote: Here in Queretaro, everyone is scared of the rain and nobody goes out when it's raining - some for good reason, others are genuinely freaked hehe. I had also forgotten to organise the rest of the band to play some music and lead our worship in song to God due to changes in plans. So we thought that nobody would show up and it would be a failure. God had other plans...

Nolan was coming to help me check out the sound gear, so he agreed to play bass. Job had been running a music and worship workshop with the youth so he agreed to play guitar and lead things and I asked myself and agreed to play drums. It was still raining when we started singing praises to God, but we lifted our 15 or 20-odd voices (about 15 or 20 of us, and only some of our voices were odd) and worshiped our Creator and Savior with all we had. It was a really awesome time! It was about half way through when I caught the reflection in the glass of the door... something yellow and orange, and moving!! Then I realised, the bonfire was lit! Afterwards, we went outside, the rain had stopped and gathered around the warmth of the flames. We joined together and thanked God for what he was doing, we prayed for our friends, we prayed for ourselves, we prayed for Queretaro, we prayed for the event and God heard and acted (see the post Faithful God).

God answers prayer.