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Hebrews 13: 18&19- "Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way. I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon."

May 1^st is National Day of Prayer. On the “Southern Styles Show” this week we talked with Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force and others about the National Day of Prayer.

Also, we asked for folks to write to us about how prayer has changed their life and the following are a couple of letters we received:

Prayer is the key to all things! It is so wonderful to know that we have a heavenly father that makes intercession for us and we can go to him all the time with all our needs.

In 2002, my wife had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This was such a blast to us. At the time, I was still working building custom cabinets with my dad, self employed and so was my wife. She had her own business and neither of us at the time was making a lot of money. The day she went to have the test done and all the results came back, she immediately turned it all over to the lord. Standing firm upon the promises of God that "By his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5.

For nearly six months, the lord had been dealing with me to leave the group I was traveling with and go into the full-time ministry. My wife was doing great and it seemed everything was fine. I won't forget that cold night the first of December 2002. We were decorating the Christmas tree. Suddenly, my wife doubled over with pain as never before. The pain became so bad, that she was almost out of her head. She lay on the couch crying. I began to pace the hall way of our home, praying and crying out to the lord for my wife. The lord spoke to me to get out of "My Comfort Zone." I must admit, I didn't understand what he was saying to me. I had to ask him to explain. He wanted me to get off into the wooded area behind our home, alone with him. I told our daughter to watch her mother, that I didn't know when I would be back, I had business to take care of. Laying face down before the lord, I cried out to him. He reminded me that he had called me into a ministry and if I would heed his calling, he would answer my prayer. I don't know how long I was along with the lord, time wasn't important. It was knowing he heard my prayers. When I left out of the woods that night, I knew everything was going to be alright.

On the following Monday, they admitted my wife into the hospital. They immediately hooked up all the IV's and began to administer morphine. For five straight days, they ran test after test on her and each test came back negative. On the fifth day, they came and got me and said, we don't understand, we know what we found, but we can't find it, IT"S GONE! Praise the lord!

I knew the answer before they did, because God had already shown me the night I gave it all to him in the woods behind my home and answered the calling upon my life. Prayer changes all things. No matter what you are going through! He is still the answer. Most importantly, Obedience is better than sacrifice.

15 years ago, I was in an accident in that I crushed both ankles.  I have 17 screws and 3 metal plates in the bottom of my legs and ankles.  I have no cartilage in my left ankle.  The doctors told me that I would never walk again, and if I did, the pain would be so severe, that I would have to have fusions.  As of this date, I am still walking, with no fusions or walking canes.  I had to learn how to walk all over again and wear wide thick tennis shoes every day along with thick jobst stockings.  I was in the hospital for 8 days…people everywhere found out about my accident and was praying.  When we would go and sing in churches, people would pray for me before I left.  I remember one instance at a small Pentecostal Holiness Church…I was in so much pain.  It was after we had finished singing…..they asked if they could pray for me.  I said yes.  I felt these small hands rubbing from my knees to my ankles.  I thought it was an older lady praying for me…..I was to find out later that it was a 4 year old.  That week is when the healing started in my body.

In 2001, our family was making our first trip to the NQC.  I was so worried about how I was going to walk around in that big building.  I was walking with a cane at this time.  We had to sing in Vidalia, GA that Sunday before we left to go to NQC.  We were at an Assembly of God Church.  We went in the back to have prayer before the service…it was wonderful!  The power of God fell on me, touched my body again and I was able to walk out of that room without my cane.  We went back to that same church 2 years later…..God worked another miracle on me.  That day, I wore a pump with about a 1” heel.  I was in so much pain by the time we finished singing.  The preacher was preaching, he gave the invitation and when I went to the altar, God touched me again….I ran all over that church in my 1” heels.  I can stand and sing for the Lord and Praise His Wonderful and Glorious Name, because not only has He saved me but He has Touched me!  About 4 weeks ago, I was able to take off the jobst stockings!!!!!  Can you ever imagine how that felt…..so thick and so hot in the summertime.  After 15 years of wearing those things from the time I got up until I went to bed, it feels kind of funny but WONDERFUL!

I love the Lord with all my Heart!  I know I’m not perfect but I know that He is still working on me.  I have the metal left to go and I believe just as God has touched me that He will remove the metal from my body!  Call me crazy…. but I’m walking!!!

Gwen – South Carolina