People can see the relationship between you and God when you pray

Philippians 4:19, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Even though Paul was addressing the Philippians with regard to the teachings of the same God, he used the word “MY” God which might suggest his God and the Philippians’ God were two different Gods. However this is not the case. Paul was actually personalizing his relationship with God and demonstrating outwardly his intimacy with Him.

Recently I had the opportunity to share the goodness of God with a friend of mine. He was facing some challenges in life and God impressed in my heart to tell my friend that in an event of need, God can help him supernaturally.

Now this is not the first time I am sharing the Gospel and the goodness of God to my friend. As far as I could remember, God has opened up 3 times, the door of opportunity to minister to him over a period of a couple of years. Through the grace of God, I had shared the salvation message with him, my own testimony, addressed some of his questions regarding God and even provided some good literature for his reference. Each of these was accomplished over the 3 different occasions through the leading of the Holy Spirit.

In other words, whatever I knew with regard to Christianity and God, I have shared much with him. However there was something different this time round. I was prompted in my heart to request if I could pray for him before we end the chat. He gladly said, “Sure, why not?” I requested him to close his eyes. I then closed mine and I started to pray out verbally with boldness. This was something I learnt from Pastor Amos when he shared in one of his testimonies.

The prayer went forth as follows briefly, “Heavenly Father, I thank you for this wonderful opportunity to pray for my friend XXX … Father I pray that You will touch him supernaturally in a way that he knows and he knows that You can be so real and that he could not deny that You exist. …. Father I pray that You will bless him, bless his family and that Your peace manifest in their presence. We now thank You and we praise You. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.”

(Certain contents were excluded in the above written prayer to protect the privacy of my friend)

What happened next was when I opened my eyes, I saw my friend looking at me. It seemed to me that he had been observing me while I prayed. There was a moment of silence before he said,” Wow, your prayer is very comprehensive and all round.” I jokingly replied, “I think this is what you need at this point in time.” However in my heart, I believed this is the first time someone has prayed for him and he was amazed by the way and the things that I prayed out. Holy Spirit was actually bringing things in my mind to pray for him. Moreover I have been telling him how real God is to me but somehow I believe he was able to witness the relationship between God and me from the way I communicate with God during the prayer. I feel that God is trying to show me that if I consistent talk with God and fellowship with God through prayer, when we have the opportunity to pray for people, especially non believers, they will be able to see the presence of a relationship with the God that we believes in, as well as the authenticity of the intimacy we have with Him. Just like how Paul says, “My God …” Praise God!

On the hindsight, I could have added the following scriptures in my prayer for him as well: “Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts; and Your ways higher than our ways. Moreover the thoughts that You have toward us are thoughts of peace and not of evil; to give us a future and a hope” and “We thank you for what you are doing right now and what you are going to do in the future.”

Nonetheless, I will bear these in mind when the next similar prayer opportunity comes.

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