After a prayer of relinquishment, "Oh, Father, I thank You that You're hand is upon this coin flip. We ask You, Father God, should we go to church today-despite the fatigue Eva feels?" The coin was tossed. Yes. "We have to go, dear," I said, apologetically to Eva.

"Yes, we do," she agreed.

"Which church does He want us to go to?" I wondered aloud. I prayed, "How about the one that's 45 minutes from here? That one, Lord?" No. Prayerfully, I continued, "How about the anointed woman preacher just a few minutes from here?" Yes!

Once there, the Holy Spirit fell heavily upon Eva as she danced joyfully to the praise and worship music. The lesson was about trusting God for all of our tomorrows. We thought of our song which we'd written that had those sentiments exactly. After the service, I wanted to get in line and ask the wonderful lady pastor if we could set up our guitar and sing out in the parking lot to the people as they filed out to go to their cars. I found a corner, took out a coin and asked God, by the usual method of prayerfully tossing a coin, and He said, "No". A few minutes later, I got a fresh attitude and asked God if I could just tell the pastor that we had a new song that we'd like for her to hear—after she was finished greeting people. God said, "Yes."

When I got up to her, and explained the situation, she invited us to come back for the evening service and sing a couple of songs. "We'd be more than happy to," I explained.

That evening, we heard a message from this anointed pastor that we really needed to hear about forgiveness. We sang three songs and I was invited up to close the service with prayer, which I humbly accepted. The pastor asked us to wait a minute before we headed out. She handed us a check for $100.00 saying that the Lord had moved upon her to give us this much needed check.

This was all because Eva heard a beckoning in her heart to ask the Holy Spirit, through the prayerful coin toss, if we should go to church. Then, which one. Since we have taken to using this method, it has not made a mockery of our prayer life—it has increased our ability to discern which voice we are listening to—ours or the Holy Spirit's. The Holy Spirit often says to us, "Would you like to ask me about…" fill in the blank here.

In this typical example, the fruit of the prayerful tosses, was a morning and evening church service with plenty of the Holy Spirit coming down from the heavens on us, a chance to play and sing for the evening service, and an unexpected check for $100. Was it the Holy Spirit speaking to us through the coin toss as to whether we should go and where we should go? There is no doubt about it.

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