PARCELS OF PRAYER

James 5:16 NLT … The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

Well I’ve sent off my last parcel full of love and Christmas gifts for those who receive them far away, and hope they like them.😊 As I was posting my parcels I felt the Lord was saying our faith filled prayers for people are like parcels. They go out packed with God’s anointing to change their lives, to give them hope and bring about His purposes.

What a great thought and it encourages me to pray more when I imagine them like parcels the people will receive, even if they never know we prayed for them! Some prayers are like secret parcels that we send out in faith, knowing our God is faithful and He answers our prayers. 

We sometimes write ‘Fragile’ or ‘Handle with care’ on the outside of a box and God knows about our fragile situations, and we can trust Him to always handle our parcels of prayer with care. Even when they’re quick ‘envelope’ prayers, our verse says they’re all effective.😊

Sometimes we join with others to believe together for the parcel to be received with great joy when the answers come quickly, but have you ever had a parcel get lost in the post? It can be stressful, waiting for the postman to find it and make sure it’s delivered! In the same way we sometimes feel like our prayers have been lost somewhere in the postal department of heaven but actually they haven’t, they’re just being processed!

So next time you pray for someone, whether they’re secret parcels or not, big or small, let’s do it with faith in our hearts. We know our God hears every prayer of faith and He will answer them in His good time with His great power packed in the box to make them happen, so we can have great expectation for wonderful results.😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

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