When we tell someone that we will pray for them, how seriously do we take the commitment that we have just made to that person? Is it important to us to follow through and pray for the person or have we simply spoken words that we think sounded good and hopefully made someone feel better?
When we truly understand that praying to God is so much more than just speaking hopeful words to Him and when we believe, without question, that there is much power in prayer, we will never again make the commitment to pray for someone without realizing that we have made a serious commitment to them. We will make that commitment to pray for another person because we will know that our prayers will make a difference.
God, in His Word to us, repeatedly tells us to pray for each other. When we do this; when we pray for each other, we are calling on the power of the Holy Spirit to intervene in whatever situation is going on in that person's life. There is an awesome power in prayer and God wants us to understand that His power is made available to us when we pray. God's Word tells us that the 'effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.' This is telling us that our prayers are powerful and we can believe that they are being heard by the powerful and loving God of the universe.
It is God's desire that we pray for each other and that we do so with love, boldness and a true expectancy of our prayers being answered.
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