A young mom's 3 yr. old daughter was suffering from Leukemia. Philip Yancey had ministered and prayed for them through their ordeal. As an expression of love, the mom created a prayer booklet of 365 prayers for Philip. Her act of love and thanksgiving became a source of encouragement to Philip whenever he picked up the booklet in his own time of need.
And so it goes. Prayer is communion between all that we are and all that God is. As God expresses His love to us, we learn to accept His love, extending that love outward to others.
God asks us to extend love to our enemies by praying for them. In response to the hideous treacheries perpetrated by Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, C.S. Lewis prayed every night for these "ghastly" men to come to Christ. Praying caused Lewis to come to grips with the truth that he was made of the same stuff as these men and had been rescued through the grace, love and mercy of God. Lewis humbly and profusely thanked God for His grace and asked that God's love be extended to the evil leaders.
Prayer extends our love towards God and reaches out to the unloved, the treacherous, the undeserving-people like us without Christ. Such a gift of love we have in prayer with our Father! We enjoy the relationship with God in prayer, and His kingdom is extended outward by it.
