This reposting of the September 2021, Mark of Excellence newsletter on “Prayer” was already scheduled in the series before the recent prayer meeting incident where I was yelled at by the pastor for bringing a word from the Lord. (Hey, it’s the life of a prophet. I have my big-boy pants on and can handle it. But God … can certainly do as He pleases if He doesn’t like the way I was treated.)

This letter is exactly what I would write today despite that I wrote it nearly four years ago to other local pastors (not the one that yelled). Mostly, I believe that corporate prayer meetings are nonsense, at least the ones that I have witnessed over the years. In my defense, I started going to these recent ones because they were advertised as listening-to-the-Lord gatherings. So, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (God did tell me to go, too, so that’s on Him.)