Powerful prayers

**The following post written on Jun 1 2009 at 11:19PM**

Dear all,

Today is the first day of June, and Statesboro, GA. is finally once again greeted by the wonderful sunshine in solute to the new month:)

I can't really think of anything special in this month of June-- no holidays (except Father's day, which we celebrate on August 8), no appointments, no weddings--and all I can think of is that I'm about 1/4 done with my summer vacation. Praise the almighty Lord for giving me a stress-free month to look upon!

So, I've finally (after a long time being a Christian) discovered the power and importance of prayers! Being in church for quite some time, I've always heard and known about the importance of prayers, and how we should always keep one another in our daily prayers. However, the way I used to pray didn’t help much, which was listing out my prayer items instead of praying for the individual items on my list.

Just about a couple weeks ago, with God's mercy, my eyes were opened when reading a book called "Worship Team." I saw my lacking in prayers so I decided to spend more time and energy to pray for others. Since then, I've been surprised by the results!

I feel that I'm a lot closer to God. Constantly giving meaningful prayers to Him has helped me build a stronger relationship with Him. With prayers filled with singing praises, asking for forgiveness, and putting down mine and others' burdens, I feel the presence of God is in me more and more often.

I also feel that I'm getting better in loving and caring for the people I pray for. They become more and more involved in my everyday life even though I don't see any of them (except my parents). It is something that I've never experienced before, and I'm so thankful to be able to have this kind of life style now!

Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective
James 5:16

Praise the Lord for His great doings! Through prayers I become closer to God, and through prayers I feel stronger and able to love others more with Christ love!

I hope everyone's doing well-- wherever you are, there is a big chance that I'm praying for you :D

Love,
Anna