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Prodigal: Remember when?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Yes, I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is from No Easy Road by Dick Eastman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider for a moment the challenge of becoming an intercessor. The needs for intercessory prayer are staggering. Frank C. Laubach says, “All the following people need to be floodlighted with prayers: the President of the United States and Congress (especially Senate ), the Prime Minister and Parliament of England, Russia’s Premier and leaders, China’s leaders, delegates at every peace conference, Japanese, Germans, church members and the clergy of Christians and Jews, the missionaries, motion picture leaders, radio broadcasters, all kinds of slaves and oppressed peoples. We must pray for illiterates, for all teachers, mothers and fathers, for understanding between capital and labor, for human brotherhood, for cooperatives, for the enlargement of people’s minds to world vision, for children adn youth for wholesome literature, for victims of liquor, drugs and vices of all kinds, for educators and better education. We must pray for hatred to vanish and love to rule the world; we must pray for more prayer, for it is the world’s mightiest healing force.” Laubach’s list seems long, but even this is incomplete. Intercessors never lack needs to occupy prayer lists. Always flowing from the intercessor’s heart is prayer for someone, prayer that says, “I love you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. Mark 8:11 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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