Paul Covert learned as a young pastor that prayer opens the door to God working his wonders.
Covert and his wife had started a new church in their living room in an Arizona city in December 1984. The church had grown to about 100 a year later when Christmas rolled around. The few families in this new church decided to help a couple they knew that had fallen on hard times.
After looking over the situation, they realized this poor family was living in an apartment complex with 25 other needy families. Someone suggested they help all the families in the complex.
Covert remembers saying: "There is no way one small church can help twenty-five families. This is out of our reach."
But others insisted on going ahead with this idea. Ultimately, they decided to move together in prayer and action.
"I was astounded by what transpired," Covert writes in his book Threshold: Transforming Prayer, Transforming Prayer Leadership.
Massive donations of clothes, toys, personal hygiene items, toasters and blenders poured in. There was more than seemed possible for a church their size.
But they were still short of one thing - food.
Covert remembers sitting in his office praying about this problem when the phone rang. It was the administrative assistant of the president of Fry's Food Stores.
She said: "We have two pickup loads of canned goods that we would like to donate to a church that is helping others at Christmas. Do you all have a use for the food?"
"I was dumbstruck and actually dropped the phone," Covert recalls.
He goes on to say: "I learned a great lesson that day: prayer opens the door to the supernatural."
Covert realizes this can be dismissed by skeptics as coincidence. But he says he has seen many such "supernatural connections".
Covert's book is a delight - filled with prayer ideas and stories of the power of prayer.
Prayer works!
Covert and his wife had started a new church in their living room in an Arizona city in December 1984. The church had grown to about 100 a year later when Christmas rolled around. The few families in this new church decided to help a couple they knew that had fallen on hard times.
After looking over the situation, they realized this poor family was living in an apartment complex with 25 other needy families. Someone suggested they help all the families in the complex.
Covert remembers saying: "There is no way one small church can help twenty-five families. This is out of our reach."
But others insisted on going ahead with this idea. Ultimately, they decided to move together in prayer and action.
"I was astounded by what transpired," Covert writes in his book Threshold: Transforming Prayer, Transforming Prayer Leadership.
Massive donations of clothes, toys, personal hygiene items, toasters and blenders poured in. There was more than seemed possible for a church their size.
But they were still short of one thing - food.
Covert remembers sitting in his office praying about this problem when the phone rang. It was the administrative assistant of the president of Fry's Food Stores.
She said: "We have two pickup loads of canned goods that we would like to donate to a church that is helping others at Christmas. Do you all have a use for the food?"
"I was dumbstruck and actually dropped the phone," Covert recalls.
He goes on to say: "I learned a great lesson that day: prayer opens the door to the supernatural."
Covert realizes this can be dismissed by skeptics as coincidence. But he says he has seen many such "supernatural connections".
Covert's book is a delight - filled with prayer ideas and stories of the power of prayer.
Prayer works!
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