Corrie … now here’s a woman who knew something about prayer.    She and her sister, Betsie were the best of prayer partners in the worst of times.  No stranger to danger; after hiding countless Jews from certain death her family found themselves captured and taken to a Dutch concentration camp.  

Her autobiography tells of a time when prisoners were called to the courtyard facing pending death.  Crowded together in a field of silence a voice cried out, “Is there anyone here who can pray?”  Betsie replied, “Yes, I can pray and I will.” 

This plea for someone,anyone,  who can connect God and man echo’s God Himself.   Ezekiel 22:30 reads, “I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.”

God has always and still is looking for those who “can pray.”    Let our answer be, “Yes, I can pray and I will.”

God NEEDS a prayer partner … someone to agree with HIM!   He wants that partnership to include you and me!

I am amazed at the number of people I meet and pray with that do not have a prayer partner. Someone who will agree with them for the presence and power of God to engage in their lives, their families, their workplace, their past, their present, their future.

God is in the same position – looking for prayer partners. When Jesus prayed, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” (Luke 11:2) he was demonstrating prayer partnership with God. He was agreeing with God’s plans and purposes.

The dictionary defines partnership as “a relationship in which two or more people or organizations work together in a business venture.”

Let’s be about the Father’s business and enter into a prayer partnership with HIM!

There’s a lot of talking in prayer…   

The problem comes when we do all the talking!

I learned, the hard way, that listening prayer is more powerful than a litany of requests, responses, reports, regrets, rehashing to the very ONE who knows all …!

One day I read Zephaniah 1:7, “Hush, be silent in the presence of the Lord.”

The word hush shouted! God got my attention.

I shifted from my prayer chair to my listening chair and began the journey. It’s amazing how peaceful and powerful prayer is when it begins with listening!

Find your own listening chair, curl up and HUSH!