“Find your way, together.” Christians have been doing this for two millennia. Paul and his friends prayed with one group of friends, left on a boat, ran into another group of friends in another city and prayed with them. How do we find our way together? We pray.
Paul and his companions were on a literal journey together. Crossing the Mediterranean sea, they made it to Tyre in present-day Lebanon. There they sought out the disciples and stayed with them. When Paul revealed he was going to Jerusalem, this group of disciples joined others in urging him not to go. Did Paul do the right thing in going back to Jerusalem? On the one hand he felt compelled. Still everywhere he stopped, he was warned not to go, “through the Spirit.”
The early church included men and women and children. They all gathered together and prayed. The people of Tyre went home. Paul headed out on his journey. But they never forgot kneeling on the beach together. We are on a spiritual journey. God is calling us to corporate prayer in which we seek the Lord together. Join us as we continue to pray together, in our journey groups. God will lead us.
This morning, I showed Melanie a picture of a lady who was my seventh-grade Sunday School teacher. It popped up on my Facebook feed. She is still serving the Lord faithfully, all these years later. She and her husband, like a modern Priscilla and Aquila spoke God’s truth into my life. At an ice-rink near Frankfurt, Germany, her husband Jim answered my questions about Revelation and prayed with me. As God was calling me to preach, they helped me find Jesus, the Way, together with our church. We still find our way, together, when we pray together. On our knees together, we seek and find the Lord as we seek him with all our hearts.
