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hartslove -> RE: Felt Led To Pray... (10/19/2008 8:38:06 PM)
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Makarizo said: wow!! is this rare?
several times every day I feel led to pray for someone, sometimes so intensely, not always knowing what I am praying for, or about.
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A lady at work whom I knew only in passing saw me in the lunchroom one morning, seemingly startled and a little apprehensive. All I was doing was getting some decaf coffee. She asked if my name was xxx. She left and then quickly returned after only a few seconds. She said it was really "funny" to find me in the kitchen at the time (just us two) because she'd seen my face when she was in prayer the night before, and that she'd felt led to specifically pray for me, and that she did not know details of what she was praying about.
And she wasn't sure she should even mention it, which is why she'd left a few seconds to go in the stairwell and pray. She felt led to just tell me she'd prayed. It was just something unusual and curious to me at the time. She didn't even know my name, but I tell you, my life changed after that. Although I'd accepted Jesus as my Savior at 18, I'd been been out of fellowship a couple decades and had not been growing spiritually (all I'd do was read the gospels around Easter and Christmas and visit church occasionally--and get turned off because every one was fixated on prosperity). Well after that encounter a couple years ago, I found that I had this new hunger for the Word. Couldn't get enough. Like a power switch, the bible became amplified to me. It suddenly was so interested and understandable and fresh and captivating. At the same time, I was finding all this "new" christian media--talk radio, music, sound TV ministries, devotionals by mail, Crosswalk, people at work. My heart changed, my life changed, I have a church family now, and after two years I'm still maturing and just am thankful that our Lord reeled me back to himself. After a few months after our kitchen encounter, I told the young woman at work about this new thirst for the Word. She said she is glad that she was obedient because she'd been reluctant to say anything out of fear of rejection and embarrassment. (She said she often has felt led to pray for specific people many of them strangers.)
We still work for the same company and still are acquaintances in passing. Never had lunch together. However, there's one other interesting thing about how God used this sister in my life. When I gave birth prematurely in Sept 07, she and a coworker came to see me in the hospital. She actually wheeled me to the NICU to see my son before he died a few days later. She and the other coworker, also a christian, are the ONLY two people in my life (aside from my hubby and kids) who met my little guy during his short 8-day life here; and odd thing they were allowed to enter the NICU. Most times only immediate family is permitted. I know now that they silently prayed over him, though they expected him to live.
My understanding after the fact is that God used this woman's prayer to reel me back to himself. He shored me up before a major life storm. I had not heard of "storms" but as soon as I got strong in Christ everything bust loose. In March 2007 my childhood best friend died of breast cancer at age 39 (married mother of two minors), it hit me hard. April 2007 I got pregnant with our 4th child, unadvisedly; August 2007 my dad had a massive stroke and became paralyzed; Sept 2007 I had emergency Cesarean at 25 weeks gestation and our baby died at 8 days old; meanwhile dad slowly deteriorated before our eyes and died this past August 1. I'm so glad I had Jesus.
Sorry for the length. I rarely post, but I felt passionate about this.
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