I was reading Alpha News yesterday and it had an interview with the miner who was in charge of prayer, by the end of their ordeal 22 of the miners had come to faith in Christ...this is a section of the interview that blessed me and I hope will bless you too. It also fits in nicely with the suffering themes I've done this week :)
'We began to pray every day. We'd hold hands in a circle twice a day at 6 o'clock and 12 o'clock. We began to be touched by God's Spirit and as I led the prayers, somebody began to say 'Amen, amen, amen'.
I thought who's that? Who's praying? And God suddenly brought him out. Osman was his name and he said, 'Lord, I used to know you, but now, if you take me out of here I will serve you the rest of my life'.
'Good', I said, 'Lord now I have a disciple. Hallelujah!'
So that's how it began and we began to pray every day. I taught each one how to pray - and even taught them songs. It's a wonderful thing to sing when you're happy but it's even better to sing when you are in a crisis. You feel the presence of God come in there...
The whole atmosphere began to change under there and this invisible God would visit us. He doesn't need doors to come into a mine. He doesn't have to perforate a rock to go in. He just came into the mine where we were. That's our living God, He responded to our prayers'
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