Prayer Changes Others
God eagerly receives our prayers because when we bear others’ needs in prayer as though they were our own, we allow Him to do what He could not have done if we had not prayed.
I learned this years ago when a group of us gathered around a dear, hurting friend. As we were praying and weeping over her, Jesus spoke to my spirit: “I’m so glad you’re doing this, because now I can do what I want to do.” Our praying opens up possibilities for others that they would not have if we had not prayed. We are, indeed, our brother’s keeper.
Mothers who understand how important their prayers are in helping their children be victorious spiritually make prayer a priority. When one mother learned that something very evil had happened to her son, she was devastated. She wept for three days before the Lord.
She said, “At the end of the third day God started reminding me of Jesus’ prayer to His Father for the believers: ‘I pray not that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil that is in the world.’ Then He took me to the Lord’s Prayer often. Praying this prayer has been a very big part of my life and prayer ever since.”
As a result of her prayers, the evil that happened to her son actually brought him to a very personal acquaintance with Jesus that has matured through the years.
Dear Jesus, help me to remember that when no one is praying, the enemy has an advantage.
“The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results” (James 5:16 NLT).
Mama Bear Fight Clubs
by Arla Mitchell
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The Enemy Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against a Praying Mama Bear
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I was talking with a friend about her young adult child who is not walking with Jesus, and she expressed the need to have others come alongside and help her pray for her child. Later, I began to think about how many women feel that same need. Maybe they have no one to pray with or feel they don’t know how to pray.
From this conversation, Mama Bear Fight Club was born. Everyone knows not to get between a mama bear and her cubs. Members of the Mama Bear Fight Clubs are moms, grandmas, aunts, teachers, and friends who have the heart of a mama bear. Women who will put themselves between the enemy and the young people they care about. Women who link arms with other women and say, “We will stand between these young people and hell, doing whatever it takes to make sure they are victorious.”
Our theme verse is Isaiah 49:25b, "For I will fight those who fight you, and I will save your children.”
Join the movement. Form a fight club. Watch God move
July Verse
Psalm 43:5
"Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why am I so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
