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01.23.09

Prayer Changes Things

And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to
Him and saying, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and
suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him." Then Jesus
answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be
with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me." And Jesus
rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that
very hour. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could
we not cast it out?" So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for
assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say
to this mountain, 'Move from here to there, ' and it will move; and nothing
will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by
prayer and fasting." - Matthew 17:14-21.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it
will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among
you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for
a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in
heaven give good things to those who ask Him! - Matthew 7:7-11.

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's
building. - 1 Corinthians 3:9.

We are "fellow workers" with God and one of the ways that we are to work
spiritually is through prayer. Prayer changes things because God has chosen,
ordained it to be so. If we want to make a difference in this world we ought
to be praying about everything, all the time, all day long - "pray without
ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)." The world around you is shaped by the
prayers that you pray or by the lack of prayers that you pray.

Prayer can change things physically. There have been several scientific
studies which indicate that prayer is effective in bringing about healing.
The website, God and Science dot org, quotes the results of three specific
studies which revealed that prayer is effective in reducing congestive heart
failure, reducing the amount of medication required, preventing pneumonia,
reducing the number of cardiac arrests and the frequency of
intubation/ventilation. Another study indicated prayer reduced the length of
the hospital stay for those with bloodstream infections. You can read more
about these and other studies at
www.godandscience.org/apologetics/prayer.html You can also read the
Testimony of Frank Johnson at my website. God healed his wife and also
changed him. Here is the link
www.theburningbush.net/apps/articles/default.asp? articleid=32424&
columnid=1873

Prayer will change those around you. While I was a Probation and Parole
Officer and for the years, since I have been praying for my clients. Every
so often, I will encounter one of them and have been encouraged to hear them
tell me how their lives are better now. They tell me about their jobs and
their families, and I can only praise God because I know that He is the One
who has changed their lives. Of course, there are many whose lives appear to
have been unaffected by prayer, but I continue to pray for them.

Prayer will change you. God has changed my life through prayer. A simple
little prayer that you can expand and enlarge is the Prayer of Jabez. Asking
for God's blessings upon your life is asking for His will to be done in your
life. Asking for God to keep you from evil so that you will not cause pain
in the lives of others is asking for His guidance. If you have problems,
pray about them and ask others to pray too. Why? Because Prayer Changes
Things!!!

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with cancer. Many prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the
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will be forwarded to the Burning Bush Prayer Group (Of course, I am always
in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

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