Your Prayers Mean So Much To Me

Before I came to know the Lord

when someone said they were praying for me

I took it to mean that they saw a deficiency in me

I didn’t really think it made much difference

if they prayed for me or not

because I had fallen short of pleasing God

that there was no real hope for my anyway

and now, as I walk in the gospel of peace,

born again and set apart,

when my friend tells me she is praying for me

I light up like a sky full of stars

I am so appreciative

that she sees fit

to petition the King of Kings, the
Lord of Lords

on my behalf.

I am more grateful

than she will ever know

that she chooses not to worry about me

but to pray

that she doesn’t give me advice

but instead goes to God

and asks Him to set me free

from the little cloud

that hovers over me

she washes me in the Blood of Jesus

instead of putting me through the wringer

of her own judgment

and it means so very much to me

for I know with the faith

of a few good friends

I have faith that I will soon be

set completely free.

Thanks be to God

for sending my friends

who love me

and lift me up

in their prayers.

I shout hallelujah

all Glory to God.

—Julie Evans

9/15/2000