Experience the Power & Peace of a Life of Prayer

In a Moms in Prayer group I led, we’d pray for our public school teachers, adapting Acts 26:18: “May [teacher’s name] open his/her eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Christ.” One day a mom came into the group upset about a certain teacher. We prayed for that teacher week after week, and soon she came to know the Lord. Eleven other teachers also came to Christ as we prayed Acts 26:18 over them! 

In our weakness, God can be strong. That’s what scripture prayer is all about to me. I weakly expect a little progress, a foggy answer, an inkling of God’s will. Scripture isn’t like that. It is exactly God’s will. It is clearly what God wants for His children—that’s me and my own beloved kids. Scripture is that road map for how to pray for them. It has taught me to pray bold prayers because He is a bold God and His Word promises bold things. I can pray no less.

After a group of women in the jungle heard the gospel and believed, a missionary taught them how to pray. One of the scriptures she used was Zechariah 2:5. One of the young boys, who had a newly praying mom, was snatched by a witch doctor and taken to be sacrificed. The group prayed from this verse. Even though the boy had been drugged, he was alert enough to hear one man exclaim, “I can’t touch him. It’s as though there’s a wall of fire around him.” The boy got up, ran away, and made it safely home.

When my son David was going into shock because his intestines had just ruptured, I had a choice: I could freak out or I could pray. The Holy Spirit steadied my nerves, and I knelt beside David’s hospital bed, pleading with God. In the midst of my agony, an inexplicable peace flooded my soul. I knew whether God healed David on earth or healed him in heaven, God would accomplish His best plan. Ultimately, David’s gifted doctor was able to operate on him. Crohn’s disease was a new part of his life, yet God renewed in my son a steadfastness of heart.