Power of prayer

I met an interesting fellow the other day. He is VERY successful in life and has done well as an entrepreneur. He loves the Lord and gives him the credit for his success. He is happily married with five children. He told me a story about the miraculous power of prayer in his life that was truly inspiring. His wife has belonged to a prayer group whose mission is to pray 24 hours per day every day of the year. They do it in two hour shifts at their local church. Her shift begins at 1:30 AM and she sets her clock, gets up, gets dressed, braces herself for the cold Minnesota cold and goes in and prays earnestly for two hours and has been doing this for FIFTEEN years!

He told me that his wife developed a nasty form of cancer that the doctor told him and his wife was incurable. She went to Mayo Clinic and other premier cancer clinics, but the prognosis was bad and it appeared the cancer was spreading rapidly including to her lungs and a place on her hip and elsewhere in her body. Her prayer group began to pray for her and throughout it all she continued praying in her 1:30 AM time slot. My friend told me that she came home one night and woke him up and was excitedly telling him that God had “told” her that she was going to be healed. He wanted to believe her but chalked it up to her desperate hope more than anything.

The next morning he observed his wife talking on the phone and she was sobbing and gently crying. He thought she was receiving more bad news about the cancer. When she got off the phone she told him the doctor had called and miraculously her cancer was goneThose had been tears of joy. Today she has no sign of cancer and she still is going in praying every morning. I suppose our Father has more important things for her to do than die just yet. How wonderful it must have felt to her to experience this. One day those workers and spiritual warriors who work day in and day out for the Lord will be told by their Father, “Well done!” Will you be hearing those words? All it takes is determination to commit ourselves to the Lord and stick with it…

Phil. 4:5
The Lord is near. Do not be anxious
about anything…