The Privilege of Prayer
Do we really appreciate the privilege of prayer?! More and more lately, the whole beautiful plan of Jesus meeting us with open arms right out of the most Holy place in heaven yearning to separate us from our many burdens of sin, hits me with unsurpassed joy. Just to think about the door always being open and my Saviour always longing for my time and companionship is too good to be true! Yet it is more than true! We come to Him day by day with our burdens and He goes with us through that day without those burdens! My total life is just hanging upon prayers.I look around me here in the jungles of Thailand I see hundreds of people who do not even know the name of Jesus. They are without a burden bearer. They are hopeless and overcome by their problems. I have an enormous responsibility to help them all!Many times here when we pray with patients, they do not know what that is all about. They search our faces and our posture to find out how to do it. We see them study our folded hands and then with difficulty form their own hands in the same position. Each time this happens my heart is filled with a deep sense of responsibility to these dear people to tell them about the One and only true God that we love so much and serve each day. Perhaps our short time together can leave a lasting impression upon their dear hearts as they go home and receive healing from the Great Physician that they just heard about for the very first time.
Today we saw a man and wife and their small girl. They are from PaThaMooTah village some distance away. After their treatment we told them that we would like to pray to the great God in heaven, and ask Him to heal and help them. Once again I got that aching feeling in my chest because I knew they had no idea what we were talking about. The man looked up at the sky from our porch, wondering how someone could live up there. We explained that this is the only true God, He made the trees, grass and flowers and everything around us. He made us, therefore He loves us more than we can love our families even. He is the only One who brings health and healing. With this we bowed our heads and folded our hands. The father looked real worried and quickly folded his fingers together like we were doing. Then he noticed his little girl did not fold her fingers and he quickly pushed each of her fingers in the right position, then he concentrated on how to do his again. This was a magical moment for me as I prayed for these dear people asking that God would reveal himself to them that day and every day.Please help me pray earnestly for these people. Pray also that God will help you be willing to go anywhere He sends you, so more people like this can be told the saving gospel story! Because. . ."How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?" Romans 10:14