The Power of Your Prayers
Sharon Jaynes
Today’s Truth
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective, (James 5:16b, NIV).
Friend to Friend
G. Campbell Morgan tells a story about the power of one woman’s prayers to stir a revival in her home church.
“There are saints of God who for long, long years
have been shut off from all the activities of the Church, and even from the
worship of the sanctuary, but who, nevertheless, have continued to labor
together in prayer with the whole fellowship of the saints. There comes to me
the thought of one woman who, to my knowledge, since 1872 in this great babble
of London, has been in perpetual pain, and yet in constant prayer. She is today
a woman twisted and distorted by suffering, and yet exhaling the calm and
strength of the secret of the Most High.
“In 1872 she was a bed-ridden girl in the North of
London, praying that God would send revival to the Church of which she was a
member, and yet into which even then she never came. She had read in the little
paper called Revival, which subsequently became, The
Christian, the story of a work being done in Chicago among ragged children
by a man called D.L. Moody. She had never seen Moody, but putting that little
paper under her pillow, she began to pray, “O Lord, send this man to our
Church.” She had no means of reaching him or communicating with him. He had
already visited the country in 1867, and in 1872 he started again for a short
trip with no intention of doing any work.
“ Mr. Lessey, however, the pastor of the church of
which this girl was a member, met him and asked him to preach for him. He
consented, and after the evening service he asked those who would decide for
Christ to rise, and hundreds did so. He was surprised and imagined that his
request had been misunderstood. He repeated it more clearly, and again the
response was the same.
“Meetings were continued through the following ten
days, and four hundred members were taken into the church. In telling me this
story Moody said, ‘I wanted to know what this meant. I began making inquiries
and never rested until I found a bed-ridden girl praying that God would bring me
to that Church. He (God) had heard her, and brought me over four thousand miles
of land and sea in answer to her request.’”
Let’s Pray
Dear Lord, thank You that You allow me to come into Your presence at any time. I confess that I do not pray enough. I confess that I do not take the power of prayer as seriously as I should. Help me to become a prayer warrior who intercedes for others. Teach me how to pray.
In Jesus’ Name,
Amen.
Now It’s Your Turn
As you pray for other people, consider praying Scripture for them. Turn to Philippians 1, Colossians 1, and Ephesians 1 to see how Paul prayed for fellow believers.
Now pick one of those passages and pray for 5 people in your life today.
Let’s pray for each other. Click over to my blog page at www.sharonjaynes.com and leave a prayer request. Then pray for the request before you and after you.
More from the Girlfriends
I learned some time ago that what God had to say to me was much more important than what I had to say to God. Prayer is both speaking and listening to God. If you’re having a difficult time listening to God or want to learn more about hearing His still small voice, check out my book, Becoming a Woman who Listens to God. You’ll learn how God speaks, how to remove obstacles that block our ability to hear, and how to hear him more clearly.
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