Friday, March 19, 2021
March 19 - Vignettes on Prayer
March 19 - Vignettes on Prayer
Our last vignette sets up what we are going to look at in this snapshot. After months of prayer the Buntings along with Lindoff’s who were pastors in Medicine Hat were in a revival meeting in Standoff Alberta. In the middle of the service the evangelist who was a native leader from the States stopped in the middle of the meeting and said, “You white man stand up now.” Brother Lindoff thought he was talking to him so he stood up. The evangelist said in a commanding voice, “no the short one,” Brother Bunting stood up and the evangelist said, “You are going to have a revival, now sit down.” That was it no other instructions were given. The meeting went on as usual and the Buntings bid farewell to their friends and drove home to Claresholm. It was a Saturday night and they had to get ready for church and were wondering what do next. When you pray you need to be ready for the sudden and often unexpected too happen. God hears and answers you prayers but often different than you expect. James 4:2, says you have not because you ask not. Ask and then get ready to receive because as Dan 9:23 and 10:12, states the answer is on the way.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
March 18 - Vignettes on Prayer
March 18 - Vignettes on Prayer
We are all have stories of victories won through prayer. I was born again in 1974 in a revival in Claresholm, Alberta, my home. Kenneth Bunting was the Pentecostal Pastor in that community. They had been praying for a number of months for revival. The church had been praying in particular for the young people. For a few years that had been little movement among the young. The church was concerned and they fasted prayed and sought the face of God. They knew that only through prayer could God do something. When you are concerned about your world you have to pray, seek God’s face, turn from you sin, and humble yourself. God’s promise is that He will hear from heaven forgive your sin and heal your land. That is what was happening with this group of people. They wanted and needed revival. They heard about what God was doing in other places but not Claresholm. It had been decades and the old guard was hungry for revival. Jesus promised in Matt 5:6, that if you hunger and thirst after righteousness you would be filled. In our next vignette on prayer we will find out the results of that cry for revival.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
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