We Start With Prayer

By Cindy Carmer

Before being appointed with ABWE, I taught first grade in a Christian school. My favorite part of the day was our morning devotions and prayer time. I collected prayer requests so we could pray specifically for nations, ministries, and individuals.

Now, as a member of the ABWE home office team, my favorite part of the day is from 8:30-9:00 each morning, when we gather to pray. Prayer requests come from donors, churches, missionaries, and home office staff; sometimes we know the folks well, at other times we have yet to meet those needing our prayers.

At times we are reminded that perhaps the most important thing we do each day is to spend those thirty minutes before the throne of God. We can’t explain how, but we know that prayer moves the hand of God to do what we are powerless to do. I still remember the blessing in 1989 of learning that our prayers for the country of Albania were being answered. After seventy years of communism, the only “officially atheistic country” in the world was softening to the gospel. My first grade students were not at all surprised by this news—after all, they had been praying and expecting God to answer.

Did you take time to “pray through” the last issue of our magazine? Maybe you prayed for each one of the newly appointed missionaries by name, for the country and ministry God has called them to, and for their needed prayer and financial support. You will find that when you commit yourself to a ministry of intercession the Lord will bring across your path many people and needs that you can invest in through your prayers. Let’s trust Him together to change lives and the world through our prayers.

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