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The Power of a Praying Woman
Dutch, Hungarian, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian, and Afrikaans. Each time my heart leaped with joy that God had answered my prayer so powerfully. One day I received a box of my books that had been translated into Chinese, and I broke down and cried. It was something I never dreamed possible. I could picture all these precious Chinese women, whom I would never meet, reading this book and learning to pray for their families. There was no way I could physically travel all over the world to reach this many people in all these different countries, and I knew I would never get to China. But the message God had given me would. These people will never know me, but they will know God better. What a powerful answer to prayer. The members of my prayer group and I have spoken many times about the ?rst day we prayed that prayer and what God has done in response to it. Since then, with each book I have written I have prayed, “God, use me to touch the lives of others around the world with Your love, mercy, hope, and truth.” You can pray that prayer too, and God will use your abilities and talents to touch others powerfully. When your heart is to give to others from what God has given to you, He will enable you to do that. Giving to God and to other people is such a vitally important part of our life on this earth that we can never achieve all we want to see happen in our lives if we’re not doing that. It’s a major factor in realizing the complete purposes of God for us. We can never be truly whole and ful?lled or ?nd any lasting peace unless we are giving to others. We release the ?ow of God’s blessings to us by letting them ?ow through us. Giving to God and to others creates a vacuum into which God pours more blessings. If we stop up