Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I really need you to pray for me, I have this need?"
Read the following story that was sent to me and I KNOW it WILL change the way that you may think about prayer and also the way you pray. You will be blessed by this.
A missionary 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 GOD. 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, said, 'No sir, I was not the only person to see the guards. My five 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 Michigan 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 is morning here and I was preparing to go play golf. I was about to leave 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.
This story is an incredible example of how the Spirit of the Lord moves in mysterious ways. If you ever hear such prodding, go along with it.Nothing is ever hurt by prayer except the gates of hell. I encourage you to forward this to as many people as you know. If we all take it to heart, we can turn this world towards the Divine once again.
As the above true story clearly illustrates, "with faith all things are possible" and more importantly, how God hears and answers the prayers of the faithful.
After you read this, please pass it on and give God thanks for the beautiful gift of your faith, for the powerful gift of prayer, and for the many miracles he works in your own daily life .
Note: I always post my original work here, coz I love being able to express whats coming out of the soils of my very own soul. However today, I'm putting in here a forward that came into my Inbox, not because I do not have a peice ready to post here, but because I just couldn't stop the milk of humanity flow out of me when I read this. I'm still riding on the waves of Tarishhyasi and when I got this story into my Inbox, I just had to forward it to everyone. Say a prayer my dearest folk as someone is saying a prayer for you too. The biggest thing you can give anyone is a small prayer. Love you all, in my heart and in my prayers - Tagore Almeida -
10 comments:
Dear Tagore
This might not be your work as you say, but thank you for sharing it with us. The power of prayer can seperate the ocean as we all know. We must pray for everyone at the time it is needed and not put it away to do later
God bless you sir
Michelle
Tagore
Looks like the comments section is working again. It's a lovely story. Prayers rock. also can't wait to see more of your photography work. Poet, script writer, photography, eh what else do you do bro?
Salaam and love always
Salim
Beautiful, really touching. Just took me back to the time when you were talking to me about how you see life. Who is this soulmate? I expect an email ASAP with all the details, or else!!
God bless you Tagoreji
Sandy
Lovely story. As we grow older we seem to discover the power of prayers
I will always hold you in my prayers, so that a guard protects you forever x
Hi Tagore
Got your email about the change at the goacom domain. Finally read Tarishhyasi. Awesome, probably some of your best work ever. I love it when you talk about mother nature. You really are a very beautiful person, a sensitive soul and you have to get used to being called a poet. Any plans of coming to Bangalore? Perhaps your show here? let me know
luv
Nithya
hi, am a friend of a friend. Was sent the url of your book. you write well, but i feel the book could have been a lot deeper. but still a very good read. cool name for a goan, I must say I was amused.i love goa and the people are so chilled. tc
Very nice blog, u need to do more to let people know about it. I thuoght you were Bengali, but it turns out you are Goan. Will check out your site again sometime in the future
lovely read. Keep up the good work. Am based in Mumbai, hope to catch up with you sometime
Meera
Dear Tagore,
Yes, many a time, I have been guilty of putting off saying a prayer, with little thought to how much of a difference it would've made had I set aside just a few moments...
...Thank you for reminding me about the power of prayer: sometimes that's all it takes to move mountains.
A
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