A boost for our spirits

I got a spiritual boost this morning, reading how people praying together can make a big difference.

Wesley Duewel devoted an entire chapter in his great book Mighty Prevailing Prayer to the power of praying miners in Wales and others in other parts of the world who prayed in groups.

At the request of a Welsh missionary in India, a group of Welsh miners, who had just been swept up by the great Welsh revival of 1904, began praying for revival in India. They met every day just before dawn near the mine pit opening to pray for India.

After some weeks of prayer, they received the message: "Revival has come to India."

Duewel described revival breaking out in an Indian school run by a Christian woman.  The girls went out into the streets to share the good news of Christ and many became believers.

There was a chain reaction as hundreds became believers in other parts of India, too.

Of course, Jesus promised in Matthew 18: 19-20:

“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.  For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

But sometimes we need a true story to encourage us to pray.

Needless to say, we can find such stories in the Bible.  Moses prayed with Aaron and others and God moved in response to their prayers.

And the early Christians prayed together in the Book of Acts and many put their faith in Jesus and God moved miraculously among them.

I realize that God is calling me to trust his promises even if there is no immediate evidence of answers to prayer.

My part is to trust and the Holy Spirit's part is to act in power.