The Importance of Prayer

Wednesday June 20th. We had had two wonderful days of going to the Losimongori Primary School sharing the love of God through soccer, crafts and the Bible Stories. While the team was back at the Losi house waiting for their next big adventure of going to a Boma to share some more we were hanging out on the back porch watching the herds, kids and Maasai as they came and went. I, Pam, wanted to get a better picture of some recent initiates and walked toward the far end of the porch. The next thing I know one of the guys is trying to help me up. All I can remember thinking was, "Careful of my other leg."I had stepped on the cover of one of the cistern tanks and one leg had gone in and I landed on the lip with the other leg which I was sure was broken because of the way I was sitting on it. He picked me up and set me in a chair. We had 2 nurses in the group and they immediately went into action. Spraying my legs down with disinfectant and applying antibiotic ointment and bandaging the worst of my scrapes. I was then helped into the house to sit in a camp chair that has a foot rest.

We were all rejoicing that I was not seriously hurt. I was sure that the leg I had sat on had been broken due to the odd angle that I had landed on it and it was not. Miracle number one. The cut that ran up the back of my leg wasn't deep nor required stitches. Miracle number two.

You may wonder what the big deal is. Well.....


Tuesday June 19 Prayer Partners around the globe were praying the following using the Maasai of Tanzania Prayer Calendar: "Pray that the OFBC team will have good health while here."


When our interpreters, Mikaeli and Moses, came later that afternoon they were shocked and became very animated. They proceeded to tell me that the night before, June 19th, well actually very early the morning of June 20th,  both had dreams of a really bad accident among our group. They both woke up at 4 in the morning and began to pray that God would not allow a bad accident to happen. They knew that Satan wanted to cause a bad accident to stop the good work that God was doing through the volunteers.

We all believe that had it not been for our prayer partners praying on the 19th and Mikaeli and Moses praying in the wee hours of the morning on the 20th my "accident" would have been much worse. I truly don't remember stepping on the lid or even falling. I do know that God had His angels watching over me. There were pipes running all over the place in that hole and I missed all of them. I didn't fall into the hole which could have been fatal. I did not have any broken bones nor did I need stitches both of which would have necessitated a trip to Nairobi, Kenya.

The power of prayer, WOW! If the Holy Spirit impresses you to pray for someone don't hesitate. Stop whatever you are doing and intercede for them. Only God knows if your prayers will save someone's life.