KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Prayer
A POOR MAN who lived in the country broke his leg in an accident...
That meant he was laid up for a long while, unable to work. His family was large and needed help.
Someone got up a prayer meeting at the church to pray for this family. While the people were praying and asking God to help the family, there was a loud knock on the church door. Someone tiptoed to the door, opened it, and there stood a young farm boy who said, "My dad could not attend the prayer meeting tonight, so he just sent his prayers in a wagon."
And there was the wagon loaded with meat, potatoes, apples, and other things from the farm.
THOUGHT: It's one thing to offer prayers that the needs of others might be met. It another thing to put those petitions into practice.
KneEmail: "If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,' but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead" ( James 2:15-17; cf. Matt. 25:34-36).