Brethren, pray for us.
—1 Thessalonians 5:25
Does prayer change things?
Paul thought so.
He was the primary personality in the last sixteen chapters of Acts: the most productive missionary in history. Yet, as the curtain falls on Acts, Paul is in prison: a depressing ending.
But Paul didn’t see it that way. During his imprisonment, he wrote to the Philippian church, “I know that through your prayers . . . this will turn out for my deliverance” (Phil 1:19). And to his friend Philemon he wrote, “Prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you” (Phlm 22).
I know of no reason to think that Christians’ prayers for fellow Christians aren’t still effective.
Don’t withhold your prayers; they change things.