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One Friday, we received a prayer request at Prayer Clinic Online from a person in our church. As usual, our focus is not on the prayer request or the person, but on Papa God, and as He did not immediately make it clear to me how to pray for this very serious need, I held off. Saturday is always a busy family day, so I did not get to the prayer request over the weekend.

On Sunday, this person came up to us and thanked us for praying for them, although in truth we had not started yet. I did not ask them how they were doing, as obviously from the prayer request we had received, the situation was pretty terrible. Yet I couldn’t help noticing how radiant, how peaceful they looked — by gosh, they were GLOWING! Still, I did not ask for an update, as I was sure the situation could not possibly have changed yet.

Finally, on Monday, I had time to sit quietly and wait on God and ask Him to guide me as to how to pray. And I sent a prayer response to that prayer need. Very quickly a reply came back that the day after the prayer request had been submitted, there had been a breakthrough, and the situation was much much better! I was puzzled and perplexed, but soon it came to me that the very act of submitting a prayer request is in itself an act of prayer which is received by the Father directly. Not only that, but the confidence that others are (or soon will be) praying for my need gives me a boost of faith and hope, which will certainly bring the Kingdom of Light into the darkest situation.

In some ways, we ministry team members are mere bystanders who are privileged to participate in the process of prayer. But the prayer request submitted online is received directly by Papa God, and He immediately goes to work on the situation. Once again: this ministry is all about Him.

We don’t do much — ourselves.

The lion‘s share of this work is God’s. All the credit, recognition and thanks that is often directed towards us, really belongs to Him.

Yes, we do do something, we admit:

1. Our focus is Papa God — He is our desire. We spend lots of personal, interactive time with Him because He is so desirable, so wonderful, so beautiful and we enjoy hanging out with Him.

2. We get to know when He is speaking to us or showing something to us or giving us some feeling or nudge. And because He is so precious and so lovable to us, we want to respond to Him and His messages.

3. We copy Him. Like toddlers, we imitate Him. We do what He does; we say what He says. We don’t let people egg us on or discourage us or puff us up or lead us down the garden path. The only One who has the right to lead us down the garden path is our Papa God. We follow Him. We respond to Him.

And… that’s it. Papa God does all the rest. It’s all about HIM. And we are crazy about HIM!!!

Footnote for the curious: We learned to interact personally with Papa God from the biblical and Holy Spirit-inspired teachings and example of Loren Cunningham and Joy Dawson of YWAM and Mark Virkler of Communion With God Ministries. Anyone can do it!

Rest is something that God ordained for us from the beginning of time. Genesis tells us that after creating the entire universe, God rested on the seventh day, and made the seventh day a special day.

Was an infinitely powerful God tired? No way. So why did He rest?

My take on this is that He rested to show us that rest is integral to life, the universe and everything. Even God rests. Rest is something we are all made to do, and not just when we are tired. Those of us who have difficulty with this concept need to prayerfully consider the possibility that work or accomplishment or the approval of others has somehow become more important to us than it should be.

We were made to REST. Rest was ordained by God from the beginning of time.