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Lord, Use Me to Touch the Lives of Others
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uring the months when I was writing The Power of a Praying® Wife, I felt led by the Holy Spirit to pray something I had never prayed before. I have always asked God to help me write every book, but this time in addition to that I felt led by the Spirit to pray that this would be a breakthrough book in terms of how many people it would reach. I had written three books previously and had never thought to pray that way. I shared what I was feeling with my prayer group, and they were in complete agreement. Together we prayed that God would take this book to the ends of the earth and see that it was translated into many other languages. I could hardly believe I was asking God for something so grand, but I felt with all my heart this was exactly the way God wanted us to pray. We prayed that prayer every week until long after the book was published. Over the next several years, publishers from different countries around the world wrote to ask for permission to translate the book in their nation’s language and publish it. Soon copies of my book arrived at my door that were translated into French, German, Portuguese, Nigerian, Indian,
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