Productive Prayers

 We sure did a lot of praying about our printer last week. This week Marvin ordered something, installed it and the printer is fixed and good to go for another half a million copies. This printer not only supplies copies of the study for the Berean office it also provides them for the Peoria county Jail and Tazewell jail.  We were all pretty busy today as there was more mail than usual. Skip and I were kept busy on the computers, Bruce ran the postage machine, Kathy and Leila were the letter readers, Marvin was put on repair duty (he not only fixed the printer he also fixed the toilet paper holder in the bathroom). Marvin looks up prisons and prisoners when we can't find a complete address. At 9:30 am we meet in the room for our prayer and today we had a lot of items to thank our Lord for but also prayers for Erica who is in critical condition in Florida and our cousin Abigal who was in the hospital with blood clots. Shirley, Chuck, Sharon and Shirley processed the study mail then prepared boxes of studies for next week. We have a real problem with a man named Gilbert who works in the mail room of one of the prisons. He is rejecting the Bible studies, sending them back with the note the contents are not allowed.  Skip prayed that his heart could soften and he would allow the studies to continue. This is a first for us, usually if there is no chaplain or church services at that facility the mail room clerk can either accept or reject the Bible but we have never had one not allow the prisoner to do the study.

Marvin had some news for us, they have discovered the location of the city of Sodom. He was telling us about it after the prayer. 

We really do appreciate that our prayers are heard. God actually inclines His ear to hear them. It is wonderful to know these prayers are productive. They are answered and and we are thankful.