My Christian friends, do you need encouragement?

Question

Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?"

Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?"

A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan .

"While serving at a small field hospital in Africa , every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point.

On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine, and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital.

Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured. I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord.

I then traveled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident.

Two weeks later I repeated my journey.

Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by the young man I had treated. He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines. He said, 'Some friends and I followed you into the jungle, knowing you would camp overnight. We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs.

But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards.

At this, I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone in that jungle campsite.

The young man pressed the point, however, and said, 'No, sir, I was not the only person to see the guards, my friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone.'

At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day this happened.

The missionary told the congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this story:

"On the night of your incident in Africa , it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf. I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong, I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you. Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?"

The men who had met together to pray that day stood up. The missionary wasn't concerned with who they were, he was too busy counting how many men he saw.

There were 26!

Answer 1

i am not christian, and i answer u question, because pray is my dialy work.
i pray for all people, and all the wrold.
i do blieve pray is one of the strongest power that we have. it conect us to god. the only power in the world.

and it give us lots of peace.

Answer 2

Thanks for sharing that story. I've heard it before, but it was good to read again. As a Christian, a walk with the Lord is not always easy. Sometimes it feels like prayers aren't answered the way you want them to be or that they're not even answered at all. Anytime you find out how prayer has impacted someone's life though, it shows God's power and how He's working in our world. God bless!

Answer 3

well isn't that just a quaint little heart lifting, and completely fictional story. sounds more like one you should post on Snopes, you know, that Urban Legend website. You could also send it to Readers Digest, they like that kind of pablum as well. Just don't go around telling people it's a "true story"...thats' how myths get started. Like the Bible itself.

Cause what you've got there is a genuine Urban Legend ; subcategory:religious

for a more realistic take on prayer go here
http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com

Answer 4

God has promised to go before us to fight for us and I believe it! The power of prayer has been shown to be effective in a hospital setting to promote quicker recovery even when the person is not aware of it.

Answer 5

Thank you I believe it!