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Power in Prayer

DH and I had a lovely day on Saturday, going to yard sales, running errands, stopping at the mall for a bit. We were enroute from a trip to pick up a free vintage metal outdoor rocking chair that I found on Craig's list when we happened upon a motorcycle accident that had just occurred. L got out to see if he could help and I was trying to keep cars from coming any closer to the intersection until the police got there. It was kind of a frightening sight and turning my back to it made it easier for me. Then I realized that my job was to pray. So I did while I was also helping and I realized that it was a privilege to pray for that man.


I was reminded of a time about five years ago when I was going grocery shopping and there was a bad motorcycle accident in front of the shopping center. The road was closed in order to allow the medical helicopter to land. I was able to pray for the man who was hit and the people in the car who hit him. A year or so later I ran into the victim in a doctor's office. He was telling someone about the accident and as he described it I knew it was the same accident because he was describing some very specific event from that day. How awesome of God to put that young man in my path so that I could know that perhaps my prayers that day (and the prayers of others I'm sure) brought him through that ordeal.


We never know when we will have the opportunity to pray and what our prayers may do. After yesterday's motorcycle accident we went to the mall where I encountered an elderly man who was separated from his daughter. The dear man was very anxious and confused and as he pleaded with the sales clerk for help he also began to get agitated. I prayed for quite some time. Another shopper who seemed to just have a gift (or perhaps training) for dealing with what appeared to be dementia was able to calm him down and get him to sit on a sofa in the store while security was called and then dispatched to try to track down his family. I do not know the outcome of that but I pray for that man and for his family. We never know what someone is going through, do we?


What amazing power there is in prayer. I wonder how many times someone has prayed for me and how God has worked His designs in my life.



Somewhere somebody is prayin tonight

For a loved one who wandered away from the light

But faith reaches Heaven and God is aware

And forever it's changed in

One moment of prayer


(chorus)

Oh there's power in prayer Power to spare

All that you'd ever need Is waiting right there

With just a few words A child's faith

Then it's good - bye despair

Oh there's power, so much power There's power in prayer


An old man holds a body That's perilled in pain

The doctors have tried but All hope is in vain

Oh but wait somebody's prayin In the midst of the gloom

And all at once the great physician

Steps into the room


(repeat chorus)

"Power in Prayer" - New Hinsons
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