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Are you praying for someone?
Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 10:22 AM

�He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor.� Isaiah 59:16 NKJV



�The Spirit himself makes intercession for us�� Romans 8:26 NKJV



�I will pour out�the Spirit of grace and supplication�� Zechariah 12:10 NKJV



In the early �70s, my family moved to California from Kuala Lumpur. My oldest sister was in her first year of college. I was an idealistic 14-year-old, enamored by the romantic notions of the hippy movement.



One night, I tagged along with my two sisters to what we thought was a concert in the student lounge. Before the music began, we sat on the lawn of the campus, getting high. Three people walked over to our little huddle and began to talk to us about God. Something strange and unfamiliar stirred in my heart for the first time.



We wandered into the lounge, listened to some rock band play, and heard a testimony followed by a simple gospel message. I alone stood up to pray, heart pounding, so self-conscious among the seated college crowd.



That was the night I gave my life to Christ. Some 40 years later, I�m writing this in gratitude to that someone who prayed.



Someone had a burden for students.



Someone booked the lounge that night.



Someone invited a preacher and musicians to whom I could relate.



Someone put up posters and invited kids like me to come.



Someone cared about four girls sitting on the college lawn getting high.



Someone spoke simply and clearly enough for a 14-year-old to get it!



Someone sat with me after the concert to follow up after I prayed the sinner�s prayer.



I was given a small gospel of John that someone else had paid for.



And three days later, someone wrote a letter and made a phone call, inviting me to go to church that week.



My life was changed�forever.



Every facet of that evening was an important link in the chain of events that transformed my life and, later on, the lives of my sisters, my brother, and our family.



This is the first time in 40 years that I have wondered, who was it that prayed for me? Someone. Now I feel the Holy Spirit asking me, whom are you praying for? Is it a loved one, a friend, a neighbor?



Just think what God would do if more of us prayed, and invited, and brought someone to hear to gospel.



By C. Laurie

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Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 03:28 PM

Praise God for the work of the Holy Spirit.



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Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 04:35 PM

:applause:...Awesome Testamony from C.Laurie...thank you Bahira for posting this...and dlj...AMEN !!!...xo

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Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 06:15 PM

There is a Hospital in California that conducted an Experiment where they took two groups (of consenting adults) that Heart Problems and had Christians Pray for One Group and used the Second Group as a Control.



I won�t go into the Particulars other than it was done using all Protocols that are used in any Scientific Experiment (Double Blind and so forth).



The Results were Astounding�Verifiable�and Extensive!



A large Percentile of the Group that Was Prayed For had Easier Hospitals stays and Quicker Recoveries and Lesser Reoccurrences. I wish I could remember the Hospital�s Name�perhaps someone here knows.



Prayer Does Work!

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Posted : 26 Aug, 2011 11:33 PM

:applause:Beautiful post Bahira...thanks you!

Intersceeosory praying (standing in the gap) is a ministry not many undertake... as God requires that we should pray always one for another, stand in the gap in prayer for a person or a people, or for our country.

If we did stand in the gap for others, we could change the world and our environment,and bring a stop to much violence and hardships, if we would but pray and take a stand for others, and each other in our prayers. Intercessory praying is not just a one time thing, its a continual daily travailing in prayer, some times three or four times a day into a matter or situation until something happens, until there is a break-through for however long it may take for God to answer.

Our churches has a Standing in the Gap (Intercessory) Prayer Warriors Group...every morning 6:00am prayer, noon, and evening, all praying for the same cause, a person, a group of people, or situation in the community or world.

So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord GOD. Ezekeil 22:30

“He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor.” Isaiah 59:16 NKJV

Awesome article! God bless:glow:

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Posted : 29 Aug, 2011 08:49 AM

Thank you sisters! :waving:

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