It is exciting to see answers to prayer! It makes us realise that God is alive,
interested in our pleas, and able to keep His promises. In fact, prayer is
vital. Sometimes the answers come in surprising ways. Other times the answers
come softly and slowly. But one thing is sure, praying for others involves
compassion, and self abasement. It can be hard work praying for other people day
by day when we don't get any feedback, or even thanks. But when we do pray we
join Jesus in His great high priestly ministry of intercession. To know the
power of His resurrection we have to enter into the fellowship of His
sufferings. And we can do that through prayer. One day we will see the result of
our sacrificial prayer and be amazed! Wherever you are, whatever your
circumstances, you can pray. And prayer does change things. Someone has said
that prayer is the Christian's vital breath. Jesus brought all His petitions to
His father. He spent nights on the mountainside because His work in the day was
dependant on His life of prayer. His life was one long prayer poured out to God
for the world and those around Him. True prayer brings 'action', it calls forth
the power of God upon the earth and into the lives of those we pray for. Through
prayer we become the answer to others. We become His heart, His hands and His
feet, that others might find Life. Through prayer we become Jesus on this earth
giving ourselves that others might see what God is like.
'And the Lord turned
the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends' Job42:10
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