May 18, 2008

Joy in the Presence of Angels

Tonight God added two souls to His kingdom during the worship service at Peace Baptist Church. This is awesome on many different levels.

First, God has been working through our young people to awaken a sense of urgency in prayer. For the last few weeks we have challenged each other to spend ten minutes a day praying for God to be glorified through that week's service. And for the past few weeks someone has come to Christ in each service.

Second, as I write this I am talking to my brother David, who is driving truck somewhere near the Canadian border. When he saw the "status update" on my Facebook he im-ed me all excited and let me know that he had prayed today--while driving--that God would change lives during our service.

God changed at least two.

One of our young people came up to me after the service and asked if I noticed that our pastor was preaching better. My answer was that I think he has always preached very well, but that the Spirit of God has moved His people to pray, and then brought glory to Himself by answering those prayers.

By the way, I had always assumed that Luke 15:10, from whence cometh the title of this post, was about the angels rejoicing. However the phrase "in the presence of angels" would seem to indicate that the angels are spectators to a Divine celebration. That must be quite a thing to see.

Posted by Andrew on May 18, 2008 11:20 PM.