Comments on: Sitting in My Grandma’s Prayer Chair

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:31:01 +0000

This speaks deeply to me. So often we relegate prayer to a low status of “well, I can at least pray”. Your story is a beautiful example of changed lives because one woman took God at His word and prayed accordingly. So glad you shared!

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:05:19 +0000

Thanks for this, Lucinda. I especially appreciate hearing about how your great Grandma prayed for her husband and her children – very inspiring and encouraging!

By: marianbeaman

marianbeaman — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:01:03 +0000

I’m more a Martha than a Mary, and I pray often but not long. I wouldn’t boast of being a prayer warrior, at all. Yet, I do have a prayer chair – a very old, faded blue velvet, barrel-shaped chair on 4 legs. There I pray for people by name, ones on my prayer card.. Grandson Curtis wants the chair when I am ready to “give it away.” I wonder if he really means “Die.”

Most of all, I pray that he will intercede for others on that chair as I have done. Your article struck home, Luci!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:06:18 +0000

Thanks for this story. Family story is so powerful, the good and the bad. Like yours. Ps 78:1-8 tells us to tell these stories to our children, like your father did, and like you will. We all must do that- so “our children can put their confidence in God. Even the children yet to be born.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:11:49 +0000

Thank you. We are Menno’s living in a small town and attend a Methodist church. Within our church I am a part of a group called, “Women of Faith” a group of 15 nice ladies, I have been a part of the group for 5 years, all senior citizens, we got together to discuss the upcoming church split over the issue of Same Sex marriage and ordination of gay clergy and inclusion of people living this lifestyle. This was never talked about. Same Sex marriage and Gay clergy is forbidden in the Methodist Church but will soon be permitted, and the churches will split into 3 groups. As everyone talked in favor of inclusion I realized that my Biblical opinion would cause nothing but a heated argument and turn out to be 15 of them to 1 conservative, me. There is a conservative wing within the Methodist churches in this country that are going to leave the denomination. They are considered “the enemy”.
My husband and I are getting our too big house up for sale and are moving quite 50 miles away. The only option for me is the pray that God would speak to their hearts, shake their hands and say goodbye and quietly withdraw from the group.

By: Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:45:12 +0000

“In partnership…God and I pray together.” How often we hear, ‘Let us pray’. This model brings an entirely new perspective. Thank you Luci! :)

By: aladell4

aladell4 — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:31:07 +0000

I’ve realized this recently too. God shows me glimpses of answered prayers sometimes, maybe just to remind me that He hears me? What a sweet relationship we can have, if we “walk in the Spirit.” Thank you for writing this so eloquently! I always feel like I’m walking beside you as you tell your story! Such a gift!

By: Eva Toews

Eva Toews — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:27:20 +0000

Thank you for this article! It was a reproof to me. I need to pray more!