Peek Into The Prayer Room

(The following is something my beautiful wife wrote recently to those at church involved in children's ministry. She was worried it sounded corny, but I think it portrays her true desire to express her love for God.)

Friday night at 11:00 was the time slot she had chosen for the 48 hour Pursuit of Prayer. What would it be like to have an “appointment with God, all alone just her and God? As the time neared the excitement grew in her heart. “Why wait for an appointment?”, she thought to herself. How silly! Why don’t I just praise my Lord this way all the time?

She dreamt of what the room would look like. Having read the book “Red Moon Rising” she had an idea. But still, her imagination was filled with hope of something even more than she’d dreamed. How had God planned out this room - this “date” with God! This is like dating my husband, she thought. I’m with him all the time we talk, share dreams, hope, love. But meeting him somewhere for a date was different. Kind a like when we first met! Ooo! Her palms were sweaty. How sweet to feel those feelings again. She found these same exciting feelings rising up, thinking about meeting her God in the prayer room.

The day had arrived, it was “date night”. All day she was thinking about the date. Her mind was filled with praises and her heart was even more attentive that usual to hearing what God was laying on it. Praising Him for each moment and challenge, the “same old, same old” didn’t feel so “old”. It felt new and purposeful, even fueled with more passion than she had felt in along time. The time was here 10:45pm. She pulled out of her driveway and headed for the church. All the way there she was singing loudly…and praising with words that flooded the van. The smile would not fade and the sweet tears wouldn’t stop. She even arrived at the church early…that was definitely a miracle. As she sat there she thought of what it would be like in the room she would soon enter. She dreamed of dancing with her king.

When she enter the building it was quiet….hmm…she couldn’t praise quite so exuberantly as in the van, but God would hear her praises just as loudly as if she was yelling. So she signed in, removed her shoes and entered the room. Surveying the room she removed her coat and began whispering praises. People flooded her mind that needed Him. She grabbed the marker and penned them all over the paper in the room. Several minutes had past. “I should have signed up for a longer date”, she thought to herself. She was walking around the room hands in the air, as she always dreamed, uninhibited by what people would think if they saw her. Her hands were open and the praise again poured out as did the tears. But of complete joy for how good God is. Her heart was full and she drank in the scriptures she poured through. More people came to her mind. She scribbled them on the paper on the wall again, knowing that these request and praises might again be brought to Him if she left them here. Wow! Times almost up. Urgg! She didn’t want to leave. Well, she thought, it’s not like I have to stop. She wept and hugged God as she danced with Him across the room and back. No Amen, let’s continue she thought.

Out in the van, it was like she just drank a triple shot mocha, wide awake and ready to serve! Mind full of people who were alone and needing him her mind chased those people. She began to drive. Dan, the guy at Circle K, she had prayed for him for years. Would he still be working there?! Entering the store she noticed he wasn’t working. But she lifted him to God. On the way home she continued to talk with God and decided to not wait for “date night” but to dance with her King each day and dream those dreams of loving Him uninhibitedly, putting into action all that He had purposed her for.



1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 "Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit"