How often do you go to church on Monday? Unless you are the church custodian, probably not a lot. But here’s an interesting fact about one of the greatest churches ever known, London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle, and one of the greatest preachers, Charles Spurgeon. Every Monday, the church was packed to the rafters for “prayer meeting,” an event Spurgeon called “the spiritual thermometer” of his church. “I always give all the glory to God,” he wrote, “but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls; each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.”

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.

Psalm 127:1

Does God hear “crisis” prayers – those made on a deathbed, or in a foxhole, or in a crumbling house? Yes, certainly, but how much better to make prayer the foundation of your week and a fundamental of your life rather a last ditch salvage operation.

America was built on a firm foundation, mostly by praying men and women who understood that the Lord must be the builder. Today, pray that the nation’s citizens will again be praying people – and let it begin with you!

Recommended Reading: James 5:13-20

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