Final Hours - When We wonder if Our Prayers Matter

The conference was tensed and intensive as the Doctor provided final advises to the families about my beloved Uncle. We were advised by the doctor there will be 5% chance of my uncle recovering, even so, he would not be able to survive for more than 6 months with Lung Cancer. I kept myself cool as I can be quite impulsive, in my mind I was thinking, "You guys are playing God." I do not believe in chance, fate or pathetic of all, luck...

The life support system would be removed from my uncle much later in the evening [ Not more than 12 hours from now]. Uncle will have to depend on his own lungs to breath, meaning his possibilities of death can be instant or just a matter of hours, the least days...

The doctor made it clear that even we manage to get my uncle back from coma, he will be facing another life challenge with Lung Cancer. I expected, every reports are highly scientific, and I gently asked the doctor if he had witnessed miracles in his line of work, & isn't the 'definition of miracle' is when ALL failed & an out of ordinary situation arise! "For nothing will be impossible with God." Luke 1:17

To cut the story short, let us pray in faith that My Uncle would recover, to be a strong testimony of our living God, how much Jesus loves us! On the other hand, since He had received the Salvation Prayer, my life with him will be eternal with love! Amen?! The family is spilt into other religion at this moment against the Christians but I do not believe in religion but the relationship with Jesus, Holy Spirit and Abba, Daddy in Heaven for they love us heaps! I been trying my best not to be involved in such politics...

These are the final hours, I expect my Uncle to awake & be a good testimony for our living God, if it is time for him to be with the Lord, I will have the shalom...Pray with us please as my uncle dotes on me & spend years looking after me since I am a naughty baby to a man of 'Grace & Polish' [praying to be]...

Here is some sharing from my readings mostly on prayers. Some of us pray like a super sonic aircraft- smooth, sleek, high & almighty. Your words reverberate in the clouds & send sonic booms throughout the Heavens...I believe most of our prayers lives could use a tune-up. Some prayer lives lack consistency. They're either a desert or an oasis. Long arid, dry spells interrupted by brief plunges into the waters of communion...

We go days or weeks without consistent prayer, but then something happens - we hear a sermon, read a book, experience a tragedy - something leads us to pray, so we dive in. We submerge ourselves in prayer & leave refreshed & renewed. But as the journey resumes, our prayers don't...

Others of us need sincerity. Our prayers are a bit hollow, memorized, & rigid. More liturgy than life. And thought they were daily, they are dull. Still others lacks, well, honesty. We honesty wonder if prayer makes a difference. Why on earth would God in Heaven want to talk to me? If God knows all, who am I to tell him anything? If God controls all, who am I to do anything?

The Power is not in the prayer; it's in the one who hears it. Would God not hear you? At times, I prayed out of desperation. "If you can do anything for him, please have pity on us and help us." Does my prayer sounds courageous? Confident? Strong? Hardly. One word would have made a lot of difference. Instead of If, what if I'll since. "Since you can do anything for him, please have pity on us & help us. But that's not what I said. I said IF. The Greek is even more emphatic. The tense implies doubt...

If your prayer sounds like mine, don't be discouraged, for that's where prayer begins. It begins as a yearning. An honest appeal. No pretense. No boasting. No posturing. Just prayer. Feeble prayer, but prayer nonetheless!

We are tempted to wait to pray until we know how to pray. We've heard the prayers of the spiritually mature. We've read of the rigors of disciplined. And we are convinced we've a long way to traverse. Let us not wait but keep praying...start NOW Amen?!

God is more moved by our hurt than our eloquence, He will response Amen?! "for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not in any way degree leave you helpless nor forsaken nor let [you] down [relax My hold onyou] [Assuredly not!] So we take comfort and are encouraged & confidently and bodly say, The Lord is my helper: I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to us?" Amplified Bible Heb 13:5-6

Jesus loves us. Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it & not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference...