Mar 29 2009
Power of Prayer
Rivers of the World’s (ROW) radio audience has been so very kind to me that I must take a moment to say thank you and may God richly bless you for your prayers. I know many of you prayed fervently for months for my wife, Dr. Mickie Mathes, as she underwent 12 difficult rounds of chemotherapy.
Mik fought valiantly against the cancer while living in Doha, located in the beautiful country of Qatar. Praise the Lord, she recently finished her last chemotherapy treatment! I decided I would call her and see how she was feeling. The first time I called her she was still hooked up to a chemo pump and was standing behind former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the Four Seasons Hotel getting ready to have dinner.
I called Mik again the next day and she was out shopping with a bunch of her friends! Bless her heart! I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. I just know that she gets that power and energy from your prayers, concern and love.
We have very clear instructions what we should do when we need help or a healing. Read James 5:13-16:
“Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.”
It is not the faith of the person being prayed for that is necessary in making the sick person well. Instead, it is the faith of those believers who are praying. Our prayers for others can accomplish mighty things, can tear down strongholds in people’s lives, can impart physical healing in someone’s body and can literally pull someone out of the depths of sin.
Spend time today with Jesus, who is the very source of the power experienced in our prayers.