Twenty One Pillows and the Prayer Team

By Sarah D. Johnson

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477137864

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In the Beginning

Our pillows were shabby, nondescript, dirty and uncared for. We needed a change. We’d gotten new furniture, new carpet, the place had had a face lift, but the pillows were a sight for sore and praying eyes.

It’s too costly said one; what will people say. Just throw something together—it’ll be okay. Nobody will be looking at the pillows—we come together to pray.

Fifty six pillows? That’s much too much. We don’t get nearly that many in the prayer meeting—come down a touch. Well, I know the pastor says he would like to see the prayer meeting full—just wait until they come and then we can sew some more. Make it twenty.

Twenty-one pillows are what was made—each one prayerfully sewn. Lord, anoint me to make these pillows; let there be a knee for every one of these and hear the petitions lifted up to You.

The pillows were completed on March 3, 2011—each one stuffed and carefully zipped. Everyone looked the pillows over then asked, What are these pillows for?

They are to kneel on and go before the LORD in prayer and to make one’s voice be heard on high. They look too pretty to kneel on; we thought they were just for show.

Little by little the pillows began to be used. Timidly, they began to be preferred over the older ones. Under a chair here or there one was stuffed denoting this prayer pillow is taken.

The prayer team has increased from six to seventeen in four short praying months. Looking forward to see just what God has planned for this prayer team in the days ahead. I’ll keep you posted!

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She Wrote

She wrote the names down each and every one and thought there were fifteen. But in our second calculation, we saw there really were seventeen.

Make up a chart and do it nice. Please keep it every week and at the end of a year we’ll see how the prayer team has progressed.

So I took up my first real responsibility in this church. Graphed out a chart and saved it on a disk.

Malcolm and Elizabeth, Paul and Mary, too, Deborah and Sarah and Madelyn W. were there, too. Charlotte was there. Jackie was there. And Frank and Louise, too.

Fulton came, as well as Yolanda and her son. Percy and her sister came, and Minnie showed up, too.

I lay meditating before the Lord in the large sanctuary while all else were kneeled in the fellowship hall. We made our voice heard on high.

What a feeling of camaraderie we share. What a blessedness to go before the Lord.

Blessed be the Lord who hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.

Psalm 66:20 (NKJV)

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I Wondered

I wondered in my heart if it could be put in place, a way to pray corporately about a list of items and track the answers that God gave.

When I spoke to the pastor, he listened quietly and never answered ‘Yea’ or ‘Nay’ but went on merrily.

I do it on my own—I keep a prayer book listing prayers and answers. It helps me to see what God is doing and that I’m praying effectually.

I’ll pray for the prayer team that God gives us a good plan and then help us to follow it so we know He’s heard our cry.

Lord, do this: Teach us to pray and help us not to be afraid to chart the answers You give to us so freely, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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As I Lay

As I lay before Him in the sanctuary,

All my fears and cares just simply