An Answer to Prayer: How My Wife Brought Me To Tears

Ole-Hallesby-OslobilderAt Second Tuesday Prayer last week, Paul Vroom opened our time with this quote from Ole Hallesby from his work Prayer:

“We find that most of us who have been converted have had someone praying for us, someone who carried us personally to the throne of God while we were unconverted. It seems to me that no one is so poor as an individual for whom not a single soul is praying, and who has no one who takes him or her personally and persistently to God in Prayer.” (pg. 40)

Often times I hear people ask “Is prayer really worth it?” or “Why do I need to pray?” or “my prayers are never answered anyway...”. I often find myself during prayer asking the Lord for the following, “Lord in my belief, help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). Prayer is worth it. You need to pray. Your prayers are always answered (yes, no, not now).

As Paul was sharing this quote as our focus for the night, I was immediately brought back to the morning of my wedding day. My wife Amanda had been writing letters to her husband eight years prior to our wedding day. She had no clue who he would be, but she would say things like “I am praying for you”, “I wonder what you look like”, or “Have I met you yet?”. I was overtaken by emotion at the thought of Manda thinking and praying for her future husband, who turned out to be me. I felt so loved. I felt so thought for. I felt so honored to becoming her husband. But more than that, I was humbled and amazed at the work God had done to get us to that day.

tp readingHere is an excerpt from the last letter that Manda wrote: “ I just think it's so amazing how God works. I'm almost wondering if the year I started praying for you was the year you met Jesus Christ, and if that's the case, I'm absolutely blown away at God's plan...

You can probably make the connection on why Ole Hallesby and his words resonated so well with me last week. When Amanda started praying for me, though she did not know me, we were not even in the same state for that matter, was the same time that I came to understand and accept God’s free gift of grace that is available because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. The Lord was doing a mighty work in the both of us. The Lord was preparing me to be Amanda’s husband and she was preparing to be my wife.

So what does my story have to do with yours? Everything. The power of prayer is just the same today as it has always been. Often consistent “behind the scenes” prayers for friends and family members, who are apart from Christ, are a piece in the puzzle for the Lord doing his work. Ultimately, it is up to the Lord whom he will save, but we are to be faithful in bringing our prayers and petitions to the Lord.

Who is it for you that you are praying for persistently that would come to experience God’s grace, spend a lifetime worshipping Jesus to eternally worship Jesus? If there is anything we as a church can do to help, fill our a prayer request here and let us lift people up in prayer with you!

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