We embraced our SIM motto – by prayer – at a new level in our daily life. When our family entered Ethiopia in 1982, a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship was firmly in control. He used my experience with the Ethiopian Church and our mission family to shift my thinking and practice of prayer. When our family moved to Ethiopia, God showed me how a plane with two wings flies. If we don’t pray together, we will go down a spiritually slippery slope. Which one would you rather do without? The absence of either would be fatal. But that’s just the point. When we pray individually, one plus one equals two but when we pray together, one plus one equals three … I say this, not to minimize the importance of a commitment to personal, private prayer. In fact, I believe that they are like two wings of an airplane. In his book, And the Place was Shaken, John Franklin says, This way was not wrong it was just incomplete. But all of these models suited my cultural and personal bent toward individualism. And of course, I often looked to the biblical models of earnest, powerful, consistent prayer, like Hannah, Elijah, and Daniel. TheChristian film, War Room, added impetus to be a strategic prayer warrior. Their stories inspired me to be persistent in faith-filled prayer. George Müller, Amy Carmichael, Hudson Taylor, these great men and women of prayer were my models. EMQ » January–March 2023 » Volume 59 Issue 1 Hong Kong: People pray together in small groups during a church service.
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