Friday, January 8th, 2010
Thank you for our parents
Today I’m thinking especially about two people who have prayed for me by name almost every day.
One is my Mother. I’m visiting her this week.
I planned the trip a few weeks ago, but as usual, it was really God doing the planning so that I arrived at a very good time.
Mother was on a medication for an infection. The infection was improving, but the medication was getting her down in various ways.
So I have been here to spend some TLC on her. God has helped her so that she is feeling much better today.
The other person who prayed daily for me was my father-in-law, who is with his Lord now. Today is his birthday and my husband remembers his father at the Desiring God blog.
Thank you, Lord, for the prayers of our parents. Please help me to be that faithful on behalf of our children.
I also thank the Lord for my mother and my father’s daily prayers for me and my family. I have three children now and I ask God that I faithfully pray for them and for my unsaved husband.
Noel,
What a beautiful picture of you and your mother:) I pray that I also would be faithful in praying for my daughter and our foster children. Have a blessed weekend!
That was one of the hardest things for me when my mom went home to be with the Lord, her constant prayers were no longer being offered on our behalf. I fear I have not lived up to her modeling in doing this for my sons,
I remember when we looked thru her bible and devotional, the lists upon lists of folks who she prayed for on a regular basis.
Do you remember the Steve Green Song, Find us Faithful?
The lyrics were:
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift through all we’ve left behind
May the clues that they discover
And the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them
To the road we each must find
What a blessing to have Godly parents!
Being recently married, I have been welcomed into a family that often remind me of how blessed I am. My Mother-In-Law and Father-In-Law pray for my husband and I daily, and I am so grateful! Oh that God would give me the grace and love to pray for my children someday like they pray for us. Thank you for the post
Blessed indeed! Besides my grandparents and parents, and my mother-in-law praying for us every day, we have had kindly older people who have ‘adopted’ our family for prayer, as we have moved around. They have faithfully prayed for us every single day, and we are blessed with prayers in at least four countries and in many churches as we have had to move cities……it is very humbling indeed. And I am exceedingly grateful for these Godly people, who pick me, a ‘nobody of importance’ and who still pray for me after years of being away from them! I know my Ouma’s (grandmother’s) ladies Bible study still prays for us and we have never even been to her church! I have not seen my Ouma for nearly 16 years, yet she loves and prays for me everyday, together with my Oupa(grandfather)! In the past Ouma’s Bible study ladies have prayed for ‘little’ things like a child who is running a temperature or teething or strugggling with speech therapy etc. After all God cares for the sparrow! I have been profoundly touched by such love!
Just tonight we traveled nearly an hour to visit our old church and an elderly gentleman came and said to me, “just to let you know that we have not forgotten you, even though you live far away from us now and we hardly ever see you, my wife and I still pray for you and the family every single day!” I was really choked up at God’s grace to provide these faithful friends. They never phone or have our the latest news, or visit us….this gentleman is nearly blind and cannot ‘do much’ anymore but every day he and his wife pray for us! What a mighty work they are quietly doing!
Two thoughts…we can never underestimate the ministry of prayer and how God uses it!
And secondly ….what part do we take in this faithful every single day type prayer for the same people over and over again? I recon it is this type of habitual, faithful, passionate prayer that grows true ‘lovers of souls’! That whisks away despair and grumpiness and frustrations.
As an older generation of praying people move heavenward, we ought to be becoming the new prayer warriors, we ought to be praying for new prayer warriors, and we ought to be adopting new people to pray for as the Lord lays them on our heart! And we ought also to be training our children the importance of praying faithfully for these dear ones every single day!
“Please, Lord, help me to be such a faithful prayer warrior too! And thank you, thank you for those who love us enough to pray for us every single day”