Random Acts of Prayerfulness

I believe in the power of prayer.  As a matter of fact, I believe in the power of prayer so strongly that in 1999 I started what I called “random acts of prayerfulness” where I find random people throughout my day to pray for: people that I know, people that I do not know, people who I get a glimpse of as I am driving down the highway, people that I see as I am checking out in the grocery store, people in the schools, people on buses, planes, working on construction sites, people coming out of the funeral homes, banks, post offices, churches, high rise offices, people on the scene of an accident, people living their lives in this world who in general just need a random act of PRAYER! 

It all started when my friend Emily and I were sitting on the school bus heading to a football game and heard a siren go off.  Emily said, “someone got hurt we need to pray!” I said, “what do you mean?”  She said, “well, everytime I hear an ambulance siren I pray for whoever the person is  that is in trouble.”  I took those very words to heart on that day and from that idea combined with the idea of random acts of kindness came the idea of random acts of prayerfulness!  Try it sometime!  You will find that not only will you be blessing someone that you do not know but you will also feel blessed by being able to lift that person up!!!!!!  For example, I will tell you about a day not too long ago, where I was able to perform three random acts of prayerfulness in the span of a very short amount of time:

1.    I prayed for a man who was on the opposite end of a phone conversation today.  His boss was talking with him about his professional driving and reporting to him that two people had complained about his driving and had called the number.  I prayed for him to be careful and I also prayed for the boss to realize that anyone on the road at any given time can call that number line.  I prayed that when the two met that they would be able to work out a good plan.

2.    I prayed for a man in our apartment complex who walks with a cane.  It is hard to walk around our apartment complex and it seems like there is always an obstacle so I prayed for his safety as I saw him leaving the apartment to get into his car this afternoon.

3.    I prayed for a man and his wife as I saw him writing an incident report for his car.  It looked like he had been in a really bad accident. 

Now that you have a few examples try it.  It will seem awkward at first but don’t let that stop you.  God is willing to listen if you are willing to talk!!!!!!