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I was just at a “prayer” meeting with some local pastors. I put prayer in quotes because we talked most of the time. I think this was fairly unusual though. Their Thursday morning gatherings are typically spent praying for one another. Pretty cool.
The highlight for me though was listening to Louie, a 90 year old man. Well, I think he was 90. If not, very close. He was there with his wife, whom was sleeping in her wheel chair.
Wisdom spewed out of Louie throughout the meeting. He’s a retired pastor, but certainly seemed to be a godly man. He said something at the end that I thought was very cool. We were just about done talking, when he interrupted and said: “We’ve had a good discussion today, but I just want to remind everyone that Satan isn’t sitting on his butt doing nothing today. He’s tirelessly at work, and we ought to be tirelessly praying.”
We prayed. Afterwards he asked if he could pray for me. He got up and walked over to me as I was sitting in my chair. I stood in front of me, put his hands on my shoulders, and began to pray. I can just tell you that I felt like this man knows God and that when he was praying for me I really felt like God was listening and present. Prayers of the older, yet faithful saints are underrated. I confess that I don’t recognize their faithfulness enough. Man, that was cool. This man has walked with God for more than 3 times the time I have and he had a softness and humility about him that I would love to have at his age.
Louie gave me his number. I’m gonna have a cup of coffee with that man….more than once.
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