The Gift of Prayer

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We have just completed the third day at the ACT clinic. with my role being a triage nurse.  That means I would do assessments and vitals signs on each patient, in preparation to see a Nurse Practitioner or MD. After the medical assessment, I would ask each patient if they would like to pray together. Little did I know what seemed like a minor part of my time with each patient would be so profoundly life changing to me, and hopefully them as well.

I never thought of myself as a Prayer Warrior, but with the power of the Holy Spirit, I believe I could do anything God calls me to do. And it has nothing to do with me, but that God uses us as vessels to work through us, when we allow Him to. God has revealed to me in just these first 3 days, how powerful prayer truly is.  Not only that, but that it is a privilege and a gift to all of us when we pray with others.  And even though the physical needs of God's people here are more obvious, their spiritual needs were even more apparent when we prayed together.

The first day at clinic, I remember praying with a young woman with a few minor physical ailments.  There didn't seem like anything life threatening happening in her life to speak of, in fact I don't even remember her main physical complaint. After responding "yes" to prayer when offered, we held hands to pray together, with the help of my nurse translator.  With the direction of the Holy Spirit, I asked God to help heal her physically and spiritually, to protect her and give her Peace, Love, and Joy, and for her to remember how much God truly loved her as her beloved and precious daughter. She then began to cry, and weep, for it was obvious she needed to feel God's unconditional love from her Abba Father at that moment in her life, to feel cherished as God created her to be.  I was moved to tears by her response to our prayer together, and know that the Holy Spirit had intervened. Then she said through her tears, "I believe God brought me here today to the clinic to pray with you!" I told her that we weren't supposed to be here originally, but that our plans had changed. I told her, "I believe God brought me here to pray with you, too!"  It reminded me of Matthew 18:20 which says, " For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." God's Presence was so evident that day.  Prayer bonded us together with God in such a deep, spiritually intimate way.  I am forever grateful for that experience, and will always look at prayer as a privilege and a gift from God, not to be taken for granted.

I pray as you read this that you will be open to pray with others, for it is a gift God gives us to meet Him together with others in a most intimate way.

Blessings,
Kathy Leong