Prayer Spending

"Then we apostles can spend our time in prayer and teaching the word.” Acts 6:4

Along with a division of labor in the new church, the apostles wanted to do some more spending. We are more familiar with the spending our government does as it tries to start up our economy again and get us to spend more money. Spending time in prayer is of course much less expensive to the bank account than spending time in money. That is a reason to begin spending more time in prayer, though it likely is not the best reason. 

Easily do we calculate what we lose by spending time in prayer. Offer to spend an hour in prayer for the company one works for, and each of us can quickly state that we will lose x dollars per day and xx dollars per week and so on as our pay is docked for that hour. How much would the company gain though? What might our church gain if we spent a certain amount of time in prayer each day, praying in that time only for the church? Families, communities, states, and nations might gain greatly by one spending prayer for the good of that entity. Prayer spending, I might suggest, will benefit us much more than more government debt spending. 

There is talk in the news of revolution and epiphanies in thought and methods, but what sort of change could be wrought by a turning to God in prayer? How much further might we go with prayer spending? 

The Lord rejoices in you!
 Bucky