Elizabeth B. Bristol

Hanging out with God . . .

How Can I Pray for You?

“Is anyone among you suffering? He should keep on praying about it.
“And those who have reason to be thankful should continually be singing praises to the Lord.
“Is anyone sick? He should call for the elders of the church and they should pray over him and pour a little oil upon him, calling on the Lord to heal him. And their prayer, if offered in faith, will heal him, for the Lord will make him well; and if his sickness was caused by some sin, the Lord will forgive him.
"Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man has great power and WONDERFUL results.
“Elijah was as completely human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years!
“Then he prayed again, this time that it would rain, and down it poured, and the grass turned green and the gardens began to grow again” (That's what the Bible says about prayer in James 5:13-18).

Wow, right?

Before I started hanging out with God, I had no idea how good it felt to have someone pray for me. And back then you never would have been able to convince me of the power of prayer, but I’ve seen it.

I’ve felt a person’s words inside me.

And check this out: Jesus told His friends, "Here is eternal truth . . . you will go directly to the Father and ask him for anything you desire and he will give it to you, because of your relationship with me” (John 16:23, TPT).

Try it and see what happens! If it's something cool, you better write to tell me. 😊

Answered prayer is one of my favorite things. If you've been around for a while, you know I have cool God stories after cool God stories about answered prayer. Here's one of the funniest  . . .

I went to Mozambique before I signed up for the mission school and served as a missionary. One of the girls already working there looked like she could use prayer one day, so my friend asked her if we could pray for her. She said yes.

Later, she came back to tell us, "Guess what happened after you prayed."

She'd had this habit of cleaning her ears with Q-tips too much. Her doctor told her to stop. He said she needed some ear wax in there. But she struggled. It was like an addiction.

After we prayed, she had ear wax in her ear! Weird, huh? But God cares about things like that. He's the one who made ear wax for us.

So whether you are a long-time prayer warrior or someone's never had been prayed for, what have you got to lose?

How can I pray for you?

Maybe you could use:

A Prayer for Those Struggling to Pray

A Prayer Request for Healing

A Wife's Prayer for her Unemployed Husband

A Prayer for A Friend Who Lost Her Husband

A Powerful Prayer for Loneliness

Or maybe, there isn't a specific prayer that will cover what you need. If that's the case, click here and tell me what you need prayer for and I'll get on it!

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