What a weather year we have been having! Even as I am writing these words a strong line of storms is approaching from the west. It is passing through Lawrence now and should be arriving here in Kansas City between 10:00pm and midnight. Tuesday night produced some spectacular storms.

Cheryl and I had taken our Argentine guests, Edgar and Sonia Surenian, to prayer ministry in Midtown. The storms were hitting just as we arrived in a pouring, driving rain. During the entire meeting the storm pelted the building with rain and hail.  Afterward, we were headed toward downtown when Cheryl mentioned a large glow in the sky. I looked and saw brilliant yellow flames reaching up from the horizon just to the west of downtown.

We later learned that lightning had struck a fuel storage tank and produced this fire. The next day I found this amazing picture. It reminds me of what I am going to be speaking on Sunday – our reasonable prayer. This is a graphic illustration of the powerful convergence of heaven and earth, and what I desire as we ask God to make our church a house of prayer — not the destruction, of course, but the power.