C.P.R.

Over a century ago a man got an idea and had a burden. He wanted to start a noon day prayer meeting for business people at lunch. They could come and go as they needed. He made arrangements for an upstairs meeting room and set a date. He waited anxiously for the noon hour on the appointed day. Five minutes later still no one showed up. At 12:15 no one attended the prayer meeting. Finally, at 12:30 he heard the lone footsteps of someone coming up. Before it ended that first day half a dozen people made their way to that prayer meeting.

A national crisis happened soon after. Soon dozens and then hundreds were filing up that noon prayer meeting. Locations had to be changed. Other prayer meetings sprang up all over the city and then across the region. Historians say those prayer meetings were the catalyst of the Second Great Awakening that swept across the United States.

It started with one man named Jeremiah Lamphier and a burden to start a prayer meeting.

Joyce Dw started a similar prayer meeting in Seminole, TX. Each Thursday from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. people gathered to pray. At first they had an actual prayer room in the community. By the time I arrived they were alternating churches each week. Prayer request cards were laid out and people came and went as their schedules allowed. I looked forward to those meetings. It never seemed to me they were highly attended. That did not matter. God attended and I met Him there frequently.

I'm thankful for people like Jeremiah Lamphier and Joyce Dow. True prayer warriors with a heart for their communities. I don't know of such a prayer meeting in Weatherford, TX Perhaps the Lord will lead me to start one here. There are certainly needs to pray over in this community. A little more prayer has to be better than no prayer. I would be honored to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Lamphier and Mrs. Dow. Their simple acts of obedience had an impact that will not be fully known until eternity.