THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT OF ALL!
Lunch break today ... which consisted of ...
- 45 min of peace from non-stop music, chatter and customer demand and
- a chance to put my feet up ...
- a warmed again for the 3rd time tall cup of coffee...
- half a cinnamon bun! Yum!!
... and
- a phone call visit from a friend.
The conversation after a bit drifted to prayer, anointing, burden and how that sometimes
seemingly simple, unassuming and unpretentious men .... once they are standing behind the pulpit to minister ... become cloaked in a mantle of anointing that settles down on them, and with with that comes spiritual authority, power and anointing. I've seen it more than once.
A story was related to me about an elderly lady who is a pastor's wife and a pastor's mother and it goes kind of like this .......
Each year through the years on her son's birthday she would spend 8 hours in prayer -- praying for no other purpose than to intercede for her son.
- Not praying and reading her Bible.
- Not praying and reading other devotional material.
- Not praying for the mind of God for a message she might need to speak.
- Not praying for souls in Africa or Asia or Central America.
- Not praying for herself or her church or her husband or her grandchildren.
No! That time of prayer was spent entirely praying for her
son's needs; the ones she knew about and the ones she didn't know about. That has been and still is her birthday gift to her son each year!
That mother is Vesta Mangun!
And I thought, "Wow! What a birthday gift to give to your child! There couldn't be one any better than that for sure!"
I may not be able to spend 8 hours in prayer on my sons' and daughter's birthdays but I sure could spent a couple or one at least .... and spend concentrated prayer each day for each of them and my grandchildren as well.
This I intend to do with purpose, passion, will and determination.
Mat 21:22: And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
