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Please pray!\u00a0 Pray that these children and their families can understand that we all have equal access to the one, true, loving Lord of life.\u00a0 Read what my friend, Jan, wrote (edited a bit by yours truly) to a friend after our\u00a0recent visit, you may remember me asking for prayer some time ago for the very same mom:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went across the river to tell the story of Noah to our little group of Fulani ladies.\u00a0 Only 1 was there as the other was on a trip we knew about and the third, we tried to telephone but we couldn\u2019t make contact. \u00a0We decided to put the lesson off a week. \u00a0So we talked for quite a while with H.\u00a0 She has an older adult son who disappeared 3 yrs ago and she has NEVER heard from him nor does she know if he is even alive.\u00a0 She said a Fulani woman came to her the other day and said she had three chickens to sell and if she bought them for an absurd amount she would pray 3 times for her son to return.\u00a0 She was tempted to do this to bring her son back to her. \u00a0We counseled her strongly against it as God hears EVERYONE\u2019S prayers and one person\u2019s prayers are not counted more effective than another\u2019s to God.\u00a0 In other words, we don\u2019t PAY people to pray for us. She has as much access to God as this person!\u00a0 It relieved her mind to know this and we promised to pray about her son too knowing God will reveal what she needs to know about him in His timing.\u00a0 It hurts to hear that a poor, desperate mother who WANTS to know what happened to her child is being coerced by someone posing as more \u201cspiritual\u201d than others with a special line to heaven that one has to PAY to have access to.\u00a0 I told her that the Bible says there will be many people who will try and trick us into believing things that are not true which is why we need to know what God says and we need to have a relationship with Him and He will help us.\u00a0 His help is the best help of all because he knows ALL things and is ALL powerful.\u201d\u00a0 So, even though we didn\u2019t get to have our bible study, we did have a good talk with H about something that was on her heart.\u00a0 It was a God ordained day, I think!\u201d<\/p>\n

So what does prayer cost? \u00a0A little time, a little thought, and a little faith. \u00a0Anyone can pray. Please pray for H, for news for her of her son S, for our friends here and your friends there to understand that prayer is free, amazing grace is free, that the God of love is longing to hear our prayers!<\/p>\n

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