Spending the past two years traveling across the country teaching “How to Get Prayers Answered by God,” the elderly Pastor and his wife were returning to their home church ready to retire.
They were prepared to share how God had moved in response to their prayers and blessed them with many who had taken their seminars and learned the guidelines of prayers as set forth in the scriptures. Things such as asking in faith, the importance of being specific and believing you receive. Many were seeing significant results for themselves.
When they arrived home, their home church gave them a big retirement celebration and knowing the pastor’s life-long desire to go to Africa sent them on a safari. They arrived and daily the pastor would walk the jungle paths amazed by the beauty and the many different animals of which he could photograph since he didn’t want to harm them in any way.
One day he started down this particular path and a huge lion jumped up and roared so loudly the pastor fell to his knees praying, “Oh Lord, please make this a Christian lion.”
The lion sprang from his perch, ran down the path, knocked the pastor on his back, put his paw in the middle of the pastor’s chest and said, “Father, thank you for this food.”
Are we being specific enough when we pray? I have found in my experience that it’s only after I start getting into the details of the situation or circumstance I’m communing with the Lord about do I really start to have the assurance my prayers are being effectual.
I think sometimes we must ‘labor in prayer’ as the scripture say, being as persistent as Daniel, remembering this is our greatest weapon against the enemy. And this ‘labor of love’ is two dimensional. First for the ones we are praying for, and then to the One we are praying to; the Lord, who considers our prayers as incense, a sweet smelling savor unto His nostrils.
Here’s His number, just call Him up. He will answer.
“Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.” Jeremiah 33:3 gnb
Rejoicing with Power!
