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It has been said, “Our prayers never die.” I had a kid from a previous church contact me and tell me he was following me into the ministry. I was surprised because he was the hardest youth to handle in my Confirmation class. I asked what was the catalyst to his decision, and he said, “One time I caught you praying after our class. You were on your knees choked up as you lifted every one of us up by name.
I’ll never forget when you prayed over me.”
I have no idea what I said, but apparently God used my vulnerable moment years later to redirect this young man’s path. Our prayers have no time limitations on them because God exists outside of the human dimensions we live in. Never underestimate His ability to answer anytime, anyplace, anywhere. He can even answer a prayer more than once! While God might not answer our prayers how we want or when we want, but we know He promises to answer.
Like a parent who collects their kid’s elementary art work and displays it on the refrigerator, the Heavenly Father collects our prayers. Each prayer is a memorial to God re: our belief in God’s love for us and ability to answer our requests. Such faith pleases the Lord. God delights in caring for us, especially as we make Him our source. When we put God into the middle of our lives, relationships, conversations, finances, rather than reducing God to an occasional thought, the Lord comes alive.
When we live by faith, we will harvest prayer seeds that have been planted for decades, centuries, millennia. F.B. Meyer said, “The biggest regret when we get to heaven will be the prayers we didn’t offer.” So let’s activate the Living God!
-Rev. Dr. William Lewis
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