Retelling in prayer Acts 4:27
“Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.”
Picture this: you arrange to meet a friend over coffee to go over the whole story. You don’t leave anything out. This is a story of all stories of what people have done to you, what they have said, the abuse, the misrepresentation, the lies, the list goes on! You know this scenario well, because you do this often. You chew the cud. You mull it over. You go over it with a fine tooth comb. You get it off your chest. Sometimes we leave those coffee meetings better for receiving a listening ear or some wise counsel. Other times we leave worse for the retelling of the story.
Read the verse again.
The Church are praying and they are retelling the story to God. Does he not know? Has he not seen? Is this new news? Of course not!
There are times when we need to come into prayer and just go over what has happened, to just tell God the circumstance and what took place.
Prayer is not only for asking, it is for setting things in order, getting clarity of what has happened.
So go ahead re-tell the story and see what happens next.
Amen.
Missions Paul 