Your prayer partner

Suppose you were asked to play tennis doubles with some friends and a world champion tennis player offered to be your partner.

I’m sure you’d be excited.  You would be filled with confidence.  You would know that you and your partner had an excellent chance of winning.

Shouldn’t we be filled with excitement to know that Jesus is our prayer partner?

Wesley L. Duewel, a missionary and author, makes that point in different words in his book Touch the World through Prayer.

He notes that Jesus is interceding on our behalf – praying for us – in heaven.  The apostle Paul says so explicitly in Romans 8:34:

“Christ Jesus who died . . . is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”

But that is not all.  God considers us “fellow workers” (2 Corinthians 6:1).  We are to work with God to bring about his purposes in the world – and prayer is one of the most important ways to do this.

Jesus says in Matthew 18:18 that “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”.  He goes on to say that “where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them”.

He is clearly telling us that when we are in tune with Jesus, our prayers are powerful.

We are working in tandem with Jesus to change the world.