I’ve Been Praying For You!

This kind can be cast out only by prayer. Mark 9:29

Around the lunch table we shared our personal testimonies. Mark began, “My girlfriend in high school came to me and said, “I can’t keep dating you. I can’t be unequally yoked.”

“What do I have to do with an egg?”

“No, not that kind of yolk. Never mind, just come to church with me this week.”

“Sure,” Mark said.

At church that week Mark heard a clear presentation of the gospel. Later that night he prayed, “God, I don’t know everything. I don’t know much of anything, but I do know that if all the stuff I heard today is true, and I think it is, I need you.”

Then Mark called his girlfriend and said, “Hey, I’m one of you.”

“What? What do you mean?”

“You know that prayer, I prayed it.”

“You mean you asked Jesus into your heart?”

“Yes.”

Then Mark went to youth group. When he walked in, his girlfriend told everyone that Mark had received Christ.

“Hey, Mark! I’ve been praying for you! What took you so long?”

Mark thought, Took me so long—I just heard this God stuff a few days ago. Later in the evening he learned his friends from school who were in the youth group had been fasting one day a week and praying for months that he would come to faith. They could see his heart and his pain, and they knew God was the answer. Have you prayed for the passion, plan, and people God has laid on your heart?