You Are Not AloneSample

There Are Others

Besides the fact that God Himself is always with you, He also assigns people to help you and pray for you. You won’t even know some of them.

I once heard a story about a missionary in a foreign country years ago, whose ministry team traveled by donkey along rugged trails to remote villages in the mountains. They had agreed that if any of them got sick, the rest of the team would go on without them.

One day, this missionary got very sick. He couldn’t ride his donkey, so the team left him in a village with no medical care available.

The missionary got sicker and sicker. He knew that unless God intervened, he might die. By the third night, all he could pray was, “Father, help me.” And he wondered if he would make it through the night.

But the next morning, he was amazed to discover that he was better! He got up and ate some food. By the next day, he was able to ride his donkey and catch up with his ministry team in a nearby village.

But there’s more to the story. Two years later this missionary was home on furlough, and while preaching in a church, he told the story of his miraculous healing. After the service, a woman approached him and said, “Brother, what was the date of your miraculous healing?”

The missionary checked his journal to see when he had been sick. When he told the woman the date, she held up her prayer journal. They compared entries and discovered that on the exact date he had been lying on his deathbed, she had been awakened in the middle of the night. The Lord gave her an urgent directive to pray for someone in a foreign land.

She prayed fervently for several hours until she got a release and knew the prayer had been answered. Until that day when the missionary spoke at her church, she hadn’t known who had needed intercession. When the missionary was too weak to pray for himself, God arranged for someone else to hold him up in prayer.

Think about it. Right now, God could be waking someone up in the night to pray for you. You are not alone. God is with you to strengthen you in every situation, and He’s enlisting the help of others to pray for you.