Prayer that Restores

The LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD increased all that Job had twofold. Job 42:10 NASV

I am drawn back to this verse over and over again.  After all Job had been through in his catastophic loses, after all his friends had put him through in wrongly accusing him of some secret, terrible sin that forced God to bring all this "punishment" upon him, yet Job still prayed for his friends.  Grieving, forsaken, broken Job utters a prayer of intercession for friends that had just bashed him.  Amazing.

But something unasked takes place.  Job himself is restored.

He had lost so much - children, possessions, health - but after he prays for his friends he is restored.  It is the turning point in the book of Job.  It was the turning point in his life; a simple but sacrificial prayer.  We never know what prayer can do until we pray.

On this journey we travel together, it is vitally important that we make prayer a part of all we do.  Would you be willing to join me in using our new website and its prayer possibilities as way of seeing what God can do through prayer? 

What we are asking people to do is sign up to be an "intercessory prayer partner."  After signing up, you will receive training on how to go to the website and see the requests that have come in to Northside on the web and on Sunday. Then you will find a time to pray for these needs.  You will see ways to sign up this Sunday and in the Sunday's to come. 

Big things can happen in prayer.  And they may happen in our own lives.

For the journey...