Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.
At least once in our lives, we asked someone to pray for us or for someone we love who happened to be in great danger at that time. And most of the time also, we receive advise or emails asking us to pray for someone – for recovery, for freedom, for passing an exam, for healing. Great is the power of prayer of one another. As with an unseen hand, it may brush danger aside -- be it car, poison, bullet, bomb, evil intention, temptation of sin. It reaches beyond the realm of life, for the Church has received the power of interfering with man's eternal life through prayer.
I have been in this situation so many times in the past – for my parents when they were confined in the hospital, during our stay in China, prayer for a colleague or a relative, prayer so I may reach home safe and sound. And in these moments of deliverance we do not realize that someone, somewhere, is praying for us.
Jesus knew that the only way we could be one with each other is when we love one another, pray for one another, care for one another, accept one another, know one another, visit one another, strengthen one another - one another for each other! We should live our lives for others, as always.
"I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I always remember you in my prayers, asking the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you will know him better. I pray also that you will have greater understanding in your heart so you will know the hope to which he has called us… and you will know that God's power is very great for us who believe." — Ephesians 1:16-19.
Almighty Father, we shall always pray for each other, asking You to help us live the kind of life Your Son has called us to live. We pray that with Your power, You will help us do the good things You want and perform the works of faith. We pray all this so that in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we will have glory in You. That glory comes from the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Amen +
“The Lord is compassionate and merciful.”
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