Good Morning and Happy First Day of Fall, This morning's Give Him 15 was all about Prayer and was taken from the Dutch Sheets book, "An Appeal to Heaven". Which made me think of Ted Dekker. Why, you might ask? Ted Dekker has long been one of my favorite authors. While I can't say I've read all of his books, I have read a significant number of them and one in particular is "Heaven's Wager", the first book in his Heaven's Trilogy series. If you are not familiar with this book, I highly recommend. This book tells the story of an old woman of faith who had tragedy strike twice in her family in a short amount of time, throwing her Son-in-law into a precarious and dangerous place. Of his own making, sure. But still, he needed help, and he had deaf ears to anything she had to say to him. It is a long and very engaging story, and one I would hate to spoil for anyone so will leave details out, but very much worth the read. This Give Him 15 podcast today about the Power of Prayer made me think of it because of how fascinated I was with this simple concept of Helen prayer walking for her beloved Son-In-Law every day until she saw Heaven move the mountain keeping him from Jesus. Every day, feeling called by Jesus to do so, she would leave early on her walk and not come home until she felt something shift in the spirit. And while she is doing that, you get a very long and involved story from Him that will keep you engaged in seeing how her supporting him in Prayer eventually helps him see the truths he needed to see. I think this is something all of us could learn a true lesson about. I know I have many things that need a "shift in the spirit" through prayer to see the mountain move. As we all probably do. A lost family member. A difficult situation at work or at home. Our Nation, which is in dire need right now of prayer warriors taking to the street, or just on our knees, to pray until the mountains standing in the way of its healing moves. When covid first hit, I was sitting in Church one day when my Pastor played a video from Nate and Christy Johnston from Australia (but living in California, I think) that gave me hope and helped open my eyes even more than they were already opened about the spiritual battle we are all facing today here in the US, and not just here but also around the world. I play it often just to remind myself that God Wins and is fully in control but we ALL should be covering our Country in prayer. I would like to share this with you now, as a call to prayer to see the mountains standing in the way of the healing of this Country move, and not just this Country but the entire world. Perhaps I should go have a good "prayer walk" after work today. Have a wonderful first day of Fall.
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