Prayer

Laurel Wreath wrote me this morning about the radio interview I'm having this afternoon. She said, "I'll be praying you through." Wow, it's an awesome comfort to know that one is with you in prayer.

I'm reminded of the many people praying Heather through while Emma (last post) is sick, and I'm reminded of a Bible story that brought tears to my eyes this morning. Exodus 17:11 reads, "And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amelek prevailed."

We may not have a staff in our hands like Moses, who held it high in the air as a symbol of his reaching out to the Lord God Almighty, but we have something equally as powerful--prayer--and we can reach out to the Lord God Almighty because of a High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ who mediates between us and God.

How far will we go to support our friends in prayer? Verse 12 says that Moses' hands were heavy, and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon, and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side, and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."