Divine P's

—What the Bible Teaches, Matthew

Prayer on a Pin

Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing Sing prison in the late 1800's when guards found him dead in his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.2 millimeters in diameter. Under magnification it was found that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pins were the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 66 words and 256 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and one was gold—the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a true masterpiece. Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his life creating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by the naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 separate carving strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his artwork.

—From the Internet

Teach Us To Pray

The request is not how to pray, though He does teach us how. Neither is it what to pray, though He teaches us what. We know how to pray and what to pray better than we pray. "Lord, teach us to PRAY." We are tempted to let other good things displace prayer, and spend hours, days, and weeks for other things but only minutes for prayer. Knowing how and what is not sufficient. We must take time to do it, for God works in answer to prayer, and God at work is our greatest need.

—A.C. Dixon