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An Everyday Expression of Hope 

I Give Myself…

August 24, 2014 by John Hembree 3 Comments

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Recently I said to someone, “If I had spent as much time praying as I have reading books, I would be much further along.”

I believe that to be true.

Those who have a gift of prayer, to intercede before God on behalf of another.

Could there be any more selfless act?

For someone to go to the maker of the universe and mention someone else by name is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Yet there are those who are called to do just that.

To intercede.

I keep deleting and backspacing my words because I feel like my limited vocabulary is not adequate to communicate the importance of this subject.

Then I just sit here and look at the computer screen because I remember a woman walking up to me and asking my name and then saying, “I have been praying for you every day and I did not even know your name.”

I also received the following message.

“I wonder and ask Him how can I, a little old lady by the world’s standards, turn anything around.”

She then followed up by writing, “Prayer does change things.”

These are the people who turn things around.

These are the people who truly change the world.

By prayer.

Give yourself to it.

If there is an intercessory prayer group in your church, join it.

Do not let anything or anybody keep you from what you know to be the reason you were put on this earth.

To pray for others.

It is too important.

Too vital.

To intercede.

On behalf of another.

“But I give myself to prayer.”  Psalm 109:4

John

 

 

 

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  1. Kathy says

    January 9, 2014 at 8:20 am

    John
    I am reminded about a message I heard from Dr. Henry Blackaby. He spoke about the power of Intercessory prayer. Someone had told a missionary serving in Africa they would pray for them because the missionary (a lady) had said that something wasn’t right within the tribe she was helping. The person who committed to pray admitted forgetting to pray that night. The next day this person found out the missionary had been killed. Imagine the guilt of knowing you said or where asked to pray but you didn’t. If we say we will pray on someone’s behalf we should just about stop what we are doing and do that. I consider it an honor to be asked to pray for someone… I believe it can change the course and make miracles happen when believers start lifting those prayers to our Creator.

    Thank you for sharing!

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    • John Hembree says

      January 9, 2014 at 10:33 am

      Then I would ask Kathy that you pray for me and that I not allow anything to come before my devotion to God and the call to bring Hope to the hopeless.

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      • Kathy says

        January 9, 2014 at 11:45 am

        Done. And I will. Thank you for your words today..

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