Ned,

I love your point about others want to hear us pray for them.  So often
someone will ask for prayer and I'll just say I will.  I got really
convicted of saying I would and then not doing it.  So if I say I will, I
try to pray for that person right then, even if they don't hear me.  Well,
the other day, it was actually somebody on this list who called me for
prayer.  I prayed for them right then and there.  When I hung up, I had
tears pouring down my face, and it hit me!  What a privilege we have to
bring that other person before the Lord.  I know the lord is always with us
as in Immanuel, God with us, and by the presence of his Holy Spirit.  But
what a privilege to all of a sudden appear before the awesome throne of God
with a request, a need for someone he absolutely loves and gave his very
life for.

Sorry for preaching.  LOL!

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Benton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] Prayhing Out loud


> Praying out loud is a problem for a lot of people.  I remember in my
> earliest time of being a Christian, I could hardly think of praying out
> loud.  One night, at a home Bible study, my mother in the Gospel, the lady
> who lead me to the Lord, she asked me to pray.  I knew I had to do it but
I
> didn't think I could.  I began and managed a few words before I nearly
> choked on the words and my breath.  You know how it si?  You take a deep
> breath to begin and it never seems to come out but just chokes you.  I was
> scared spitless!  It really isn't hard to pray out loud.  Vicki gave some
> good advice: pray out loud when you are alone and you will get use to
> hearing it.  Also, don't worry about how your prayer sounds but just but
> open and honest with Jesus when you pray.  Pray as if it were just you and
> Him. Prayer is such a blessing to people like the ones who ask Rhonda and
> Marvella  or whoever it was to pray for them.  Too many times when people
> ask us to pray for them, we say "I will certainly for you" ;and then
don't.
> Many times they really want us to pray right then and there and it blesses
> their hearts to hear us talk to the Lord on their behalf.  As much as you
> may fear praying out loud, do it a few times and that fear will go away
and
> you can be used of the Lord in a mightier way.
>
> Just my two cents worth.
>
> Ned
>