Power of Prayer

I just wanted to encourage you all to log on to the Resource Forum on the website (www.highlandshomeschoolers.com/forum ). It has started to grow with information, but one major change is the Prayer Needs are now listed and can be listed directly on the forum. The forum is only viewable by registered users that I personally screen and approve before they can view the group information. I know this adds an extra step for you to log in, but I hope you will not let this inconvenience stop you from keeping up on the needs of our group members as well as the group news. We have had several serious needs in our group these past few months, and it is important to support each other in these tough times.

Since I have your attention, I want to personally ask you to pray for the group that is leaving for Washington DC this Sunday---we need good health and protection! God has opened many doors for us to see special places like the White House, and we are still waiting for some of other tours to be confirmed. I am trusting that God will use this time to encourage our students to take a stand and be eager to get involved in making a difference in our government.

Below is a great story someone sent me, that I believe truly communicates the power of prayer and support. I hope you are inspired by it! -Kristy

God's 26 Guards

Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?"
Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?"
Read the following story that was sent to me and may it change the way that you may think about prayer and also the way you pray.
You will be blessed by this....


A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan -
While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle
through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and
required camping overnight at the halfway point. On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city
where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine, and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital. Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured. I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord. I then traveled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident....

Two weeks later I repeated my journey. Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by the young man I had treated. He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines. He said, 'Some friends and I followed you into the jungle, knowing you would camp overnight. We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs. But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards. At this, I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone in that jungle campsite. The young man pressed the point, however, and said, 'No, sir, I was not the only person to see the guards, my friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone'

At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day this happened. The missionary told the congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this story:
"On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf.
I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong, I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you. Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?" The men who had met together to pray that day stood up. The missionary wasn't concerned with who they were, he was too busy counting how many men he saw. There were 26!

Nothing is ever hurt by prayer except the gates of hell.

As the above true story clearly illustrates,
"With God all things are possible".
More importantly, how God hears and
answers the prayers of the faithful.