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May 3, 1999 Vol. IV Number 17
Another great Sunday, as we worshipped today. The power of prayer was evident everywhere and what a great way to close the service with prayer for God’s blessings on us and on our nation. God is so good! All the time!
The great baseball catcher Yogi Berra was involved in a ball game in which the score was tied, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. The batter from the opposing team stepped up to the batting box and made the sign of the cross on home plate with his bat. Berra was a Catholic, too, but he wiped off the plate with his glove and said to the pious batter, “Why don’t we let God just watch this game?” That is good theology when applied to the outcome of a baseball game. It’s terrible when applied to the way we live our lives and carry out the work of God. Worse than that, it is fatal.
God is merely in attendance at the game, our prayers are merely ceremonial functions: Tips of the hats, verbal recognition over the loudspeaker between innings, or requests to throw out the game ball. Prayer is always getting nudged aside, neglected or perfunctorily performed. Many of us feel we just have too much to do to have time to pray.
Dr. D.L. Moody once said that he would rather be able to pray than be a great preacher, Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only to pray.
“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5
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