Wednesday night at our church is a time of Bible study and prayer. After we spend about twenty minutes in Bible study, the service is opened up to the congregation. People who have needs for prayer will share them with the rest of the church during this time. If someone has a need, but does not want to specify the nature of it, they will say only that they have an “unspoken” prayer request. After we get all of the prayer requests, we pray together either as a church, as families, or with prayer partners.
On one such evening my husband was paired up with a deacon in the church as well as an eight-year-old boy for prayer. It just so happens that there were many unspoken prayer requests given on that evening and the deacon requested that the young boy be the one to pray for them. The deacon began to pray, followed by my husband.
When it came time for the boy to pray, he bowed his head and said, with heartfelt sincerity, “Dear God, I pray for Mrs. Gust, that she would have something to say. And I pray for Mr. and Mrs. Huffman, that you would give them something to say too.” He continued to pray for each unspoken prayer request in this fashion.
Oh the wonderful, literal nature of our precious children! My husband and the deacon gave it their best effort to keep their amusement from showing. It is interesting to muse over what goes on in the mind of a child when he hears words or phrases that don’t seem to make sense. He must have been thinking, “All of these poor people don’t know what to say!” I wonder if he was confused when he saw those same people conversing with others after the service was completed?
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