Samson is back

 

Who is Samson you may be asking? An 1831 locomotive of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a software platform for computational nanoscience, a Lockheed Martin military transport plane, a character from the Bible with legendary strength and long hair!

Well Samson is all those things but he is also a cat. Samson is a cat that belongs to friends of ours from church in Huntingdon. And sadly Samson went missing for 48 hours.

What would you do if you lost your cat? Search around the garden ask around the neighbours. Our friends did all the normal things but they did something else that is a bit more unusual.

They asked their church to pray. Here’s the whatsapp message that went around Christ Church Huntingdon “Would love prayers that our missing cat would turn up- he hasn’t come home the past couple of nights… so worried that he might be trapped in someone’s shed/garage”. Then there are 5 emojis of praying hands as people got to work praying.

What happened next? 2 hours later, another message from Samson’s owners saying “Answered prayer, the cat is back, thanks all”. Followed by 8 celebration and heart emojis!

Well you could say it’s coincidence, and it could be, and I’m not saying that prayer means everything is always going to be alright. In fact Samson came back with a nasty injury and had to go straight off to the vets.

But my point is that prayer is powerful. The God of the universe who is so big that he made the milky way is interested in you. And he loves to hear our prayers.

The Bible says “the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective”.

Next time you lose something. Keep looking, keep asking around, but why not pray as well. Lord help me! God loves answering prayer, and he loves to find lost people too!

Charlie Newcombe, 21/06/2023