Do you have a child that needs rescued? What are you willing
to do? Whatever it takes?
According to Ron, that means the high probability of
rearranging your life, canceling some meetings, sacrificing some personal
preferences, and limiting your commitments. Fern Nichols likens it to scraping
some things off your plate.
Why?
In order to do what is necessary to rescue someone, you have
to apply the correct life-saving tactic. In the case of spiritual rescue, the
primary thing is prayer. This is because we are fighting an unseen enemy AND
because it is the Lord that turns hearts. So, prayer is the strategic tool to
use. And, prayer, serious committed prayer, involves the use of time.
Taking time to pray is a deliberate action of removing that
time from some other activity. And making time to pray is an intentional action
of planning ahead to have that time set aside unconditionally. That is what an
intercessor chooses to do to be a part of the rescue of another.
Our culture has too much to offer, too many good choices—for
us and for our kids. And as mothers, often what involves our kids means our own
personal involvement. We quickly find our "plate" stacked high.
For example, I can't not count the number of soccer games I
attended when my children were young, and that's just the games. Who knows how
much time was given to practices?
But, what if we as moms scrape off our plate just one soccer
practice a week to spend that time in prayer with other moms for our children?
What if?
The enemy is REAL. He is serious about the business of
making sure our children do not have their names written in the Book of Life.
How serious are we?
The lives of those we love depend on our prayers. What are
we willing to do? Whatever it takes?
Fern Nichols, Founder and President of Moms in Prayer
International, wrote that "if we recognize the line and cross over it to
be intercessors, God will move heaven and earth to answer our prayers, and we
will begin to see great victories and Satan's defeat. Satan trembles when he
sees the weakest saint on her knees, for he knows he has no power against our
prayers that are prayed according to God's will."
The enemy knows the power of our prayers. He can read.
And another angel came
and stood over the altar. He had a golden censer, and he was given very much
incense (fragrant spices and gums which exhale perfume when burned), that he
might mingle it with the prayers of all the people of God (the saints) upon the
golden altar before the throne. And the smoke of the incense (the perfume)
arose in the presence of God, with the prayers of the people of God (the
saints), from the hand of the angel. So the angel took the censer and filled it
with fire from the altar and cast it upon the earth. Then there followed peals
of thunder and loud rumblings and blasts and noises, and flashes of lightning
and an earthquake.
Revelation 8:3-5 (AMP)
What would happen if we did whatever it took?
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