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Prodigal: What can our prayers do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: They can do more than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is from the book Stories of the Heart and Home by Dr. James Dobson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m told that George McCluskey, my great-grandfather on the maternal side, carried a similar burden for his children through the final decades of his life. He invested the hour from eleven to twelve o’clock each morning to intercessory prayer for his family. However, he was not only asking God to bless his children, he extended his request to generations not yet born! In effect, my great-grandfather was praying for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toward the end of his life, the old man announced that God had made a very unusual promise to him. He was given the assurance that every member of four generations of our family would be Christians, including those yet to be born. He then died and the promise became part of the spiritual heritage that was passed to those of us in George McCluskey’s bloodline. As members of his family not only know the Lord but serve the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Numbers 12:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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