Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Day 3
You are only one
prayer away from a totally different life.
One prayer can completely change your external reality, your internal
reality. One prayer can completely change your destiny, change history. Do you believe that? Then pray like it. In
the words of Walter Wink: "History belongs to the intercessors."
Prayer is the difference...
...between you
fighting for God and God fighting for you
...between the best you can do and
the best God can do
...between letting things happen and
making things happen
...between coincidence and
providence
...between impotence and omnipotence
...between impossible and possible
One prayer makes all
the difference in the world.
Fourteen years ago I prayed one
prayer that has made all the difference in the world. I was standing next to my father-in-law's
casket. His death came as a shock
because he was in the prime of life, the prime of ministry. Why God took him home I still don't
understand. In my grief, I felt prompted
to pray a very simple prayer: "Give me a double portion of his
anointing." I don't think I even
knew exactly what I was asking for. I just knew I wanted an increased anointing
so I could honor his legacy, just like Elisha. Fourteen years later, to the
day, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that He has answered that prayer. My double portion? It's a double anointing to
pastor and write. I've often said that I feel as called to write as I do to
pastor, but it took fourteen years for me to realize that God has answered that
one prayer and that one prayer has made all the difference in the world.
Prayer is the
difference...
