Young guys and old guys praying together:

Something To Think About, 4 Generations of Pray-ers:

“Is it OK if I come to Prayer Meeting?” I’ve been a pastor all of my adult life, and off the top of my head I don’t recall ever hearing that question asked, before.  The question came from a grade-school aged boy.  He has come to our mid-week prayer and Bible study time in the past, but on those occasions he has attended with his dad.  His dad couldn't come on this particular night, thus the inquiry.  I assured the youngster that we would be glad to have him be a part of our meeting.  At this time of year our Prayer Meeting runs parallel with a ladies’ Bible study so, though our gathering is open to women, it tends to be a guys thing.  We aren’t a big group.  Last night there were four generations of males—a couple sixty-somethings, an assortment of forties & fifties, a mid-twenty, and my young friend.  We explored worship from Psalm 33—the how and the why.  Praising the Lord is what God’s people ought to do.  It is fitting.  We worship because of Who God is, His word, and His works.  Praising God is not an option it is a command.  We prayed.   We are a needy people.  The list of prayer requests that come our way always makes that clear.  We live in a world of breakdown—physically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, nationally, every-which-way-ly.  Your name may not have been on our list, but we prayed for you.  My young prayer-partner had a picture of the family of a friend of his.  I’ve never met the folk, but I prayed for them last night.  I’m praying again as I type this.  It’s what men of God do.  “Is it OK if I come to Prayer Meeting?”  Big time, Yes, Absolutely! Why should a youngster come to what most would regard as a totally boring, absolutely irrelevant meeting, something that is completely over his head? To learn to be a man, a Christian man, a male of a breed that is perilously close to extinction—species Prayerasaurus:  one who is convinced that the command for “men in every place to pray” (1 Timothy 2:8) hasn’t exceeded its shelf-life--that, and to greatly encourage a gray-haired preacher. It's STTA.