Given the last three days’ blogs, we have a choice. We can write prayer off as an exercise in futility or we can take it seriously. A friend of mine (one of the best pray-ers I know) likes to say:

If you knew the prayer gun was loaded, what would you aim it at?

This matches something Heather Holleman posted last week:

This morning I read something my friend Sandy posted on prayer from Dr. Timothy Warner. He says, “Sometimes we hear people say, ‘I can’t preach, I can’t sing, about all I can do is pray.’ That’s like a solider saying, ‘I don’t have a machine gun or a bazooka or a cannon. All I have is an intercontinental ballistic missile’.”

Dawson Trotman, the founder of The Navigators, is someone who took prayer seriously. Once he spent 42 mornings with a friend, 2-3 hours each morning, on a hill overlooking Los Angeles, praying…first for the city, then for all the young men they knew in Southern California, then the U.S. Soon they were asking God for men they would train to be on every continent. Later Dawson would say:

I remind you that you are going to God, the Father, the Maker of the Universe. The One who holds the world in His hands. What did you ask for? Did you ask for peanuts, toys, trinkets, or did you ask for continents?

I’m writing for myself; you’re welcome to listen in! Here’s one of the verses Dawson used during the 42-day prayer session:

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not. (Jeremiah 33.3, KJV)