In the past few months I have blessed by the prayers of so many. I cannot count the individuals, neither can I count the groups of people praying in my behalf. In many cases I was an unknown person in need, but still they prayed. It has been a season of being amazed and humbled by those prayers which have been a source of such encouragement and blessing. Back at the end of February, I was praying and thanking God for all those praying people and asking God to bless them when it came to me that I should ask God for people for whom I could pray. It was a prayer He answered.
While I had some people on a personal prayer list which I keep in the back of my journal, I noticed it was growing. Since that prayer over a month ago, seventeen people have been added to the page which holds that list I view daily. Some are members of the fellowship of cancer victims, some are struggling with other physical issues, one young man is being deployed to the Middle East, a former choral director asked me to pray for two of her friends in Virginia, and a few are new people not known until a few days ago. Many of them are like me in that they are in the midst of what seems to be impossible situations.
Prayer is not something I understand. Some of our prayers seem as if they are spoken directly to the throne room of God and others seem to bounce back upon us from the roof above our heads. While prayer remains mostly mystery, I am convinced that God uses our prayers for good. It may not be the good which we envision, but still, they are used for good. I also believe no prayer is wasted, or ignored, or forgotten. A friend of mine has suggested that all our prayers which seem unanswered find their way to a great heavenly storeroom where they are stored until it is time for God to use them for His purposes and the good of those who love Him.
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