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Like many of you, I rarely carry cash these days.
Most often, I use my credit card to shop online, as we are still under stay-at-home orders from our state's governor. Before that, I'd swipe it at store registers and at the gas pump.
We utilize automatic bill pay for our monthly expenses, and about once each month, I break down and actually write a check to our piano teacher and French tutor.
It is somewhat magical--especially to our youngest child--how money is spent when I never even carry around a quarter she can use for a bubble gum machine.
It's funny, really.
Even though my hands have not touched a bit of U.S. currency, I find that when we near the end of the month, my family has largely blown through our allotted budget for household items, clothing, food, and bills.
I've grown to see that prayer is like the currency that God uses to do His work here in our world.
We never really see it.
We might hear it, but we don't have to, as we can just as effectively pray in our minds and hearts without uttering a word.
Some of us might write our prayers down, but again, this isn't a requirement for our requests to be made known to God.
Silent. Invisible. Untangible.
Seemingly nothing really, in our physical and material world.
And yet, scripture tells us that prayer is the most powerful and effective weapon and tool we have in our arsenal as Christians.
Prayer empowers the full armor of God in spiritual warfare with the Enemy (see Ephesians 6:18).
We see how prayer can save cities and people, when we intercede for others (see Genesis 18:22-33).
As many of us have personally experienced, the prayer of a repentant person eternally saves the soul and forever reassigns someone's destiny from eternal separation from God to eternal paradise in His presence.
And I believe prayer will change the course of history as we suffer under the Covid-19 worldwide viral pandemic.
God authored prayer.
God hears prayers.
God acts in response to prayer.
In short, prayer matters.
So today, dear friend, if you are discouraged because prayer seems so ephemeral and intangible, and therefore, powerless and ineffective, take heart.
Think about the last time you used paper money and metal coins.
And how much our economy runs on money...even though it may never be seen, smelled, or touched!
Prayer IS effective--even when it seems like it is not, because God says it is in His Word.
May you and yours be safe and well during this uncertain time. And may the Lord be gloried through it all.
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