Last weekend, we continued our sermon series on The Lord’s Prayer as we take a “deep dive” into the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples.
Last week’s phrase from the Lord’s Prayer was “Hallowed be Thy Name.” It was an important reminder that our Father in heaven that we address, who desires an intimate relationship with us by allowing us to call Him “daddy,” is also a holy and set-apart God, who is to be honored and praised. This is where our prayers to God begin.
At the end of my sermon, I made mention of a tool that might help us do this, it was a zip-lock bag with a few pinto beans in it to help prompt us to praise God for His different attributes. So, at the start of your own time of prayer, I encouraged you to take one of the beans from the bag and then praise God for one of characteristics (His sovereignty, His generosity, His love, His omnipotence, His goodness, His protection, His faithfulness, etc.). Well, one of our members took that tool and moved it up a notch.
Jolene Rich put together some cloth bags filled with polished stones to use them as the tools for praying to God and thanking Him for His characteristics. They are MUCH better than my zip-lock bags and pinto beans.
So next time you are at church, take a bag with some stones (please take one bag so more of us can have them) and use them as a tool to praise God for who He is, thanking Him for His characteristics, for He is a good and loving and generous God. And if you know Joelene, be sure and thank her.