I returned Wednesday from a Pastor’s Prayer Summit. All I can say is “Wow!” and that it will probably take me weeks (months?) to process everything I experienced, heard, felt and received while there. I have never spent three days praying mainly from the Scriptures. It was a new experience. I wondered before I went if I could pray for three days in a row, but when it was over I wished it had been four, or five or six days in a row. I am barely back and already looking forward to next year.
I had so many things running through my mind and heart when I returned on Wednesday. I already missed the beautiful peace and silence of that mountain location back off the highway. I missed being in the mountains rather than just seeing them from a distance as I do here in the Treasure Valley.
Wednesday before we left, I just stood at the great windows in the conference center and looked out, soaking in as much as I could of God’s magnificent scenes before me.
Boise is almost 3000-foot elevation. I always feel as if I am in the mountains here. At the Prayer Summit I was in the mountains I can see from Boise – with even higher mountains before me.
I thought before the Prayer Summit that I had a good prayer life – that I prayed well and often. After these three days at the Summit, I realized that my prayer life is far short of what it should be. I went much higher than I dreamed I could and realized that there is still more.
I had a “Boise” prayer life, experienced a “mountain” one – and now desiring those even greater heights awaiting.
“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” [Colossians 4:2]
