It has been my privilege to know a few older folks who faithfully prayed. I’ll call them, “Prayer Warriors” Those who could no longer physically do the day to day work of the Kingdom, so they spent a large part of their day praying. Praying for the work and the workers of the Kingdom on earth. Praying that the kingly rule of God may begin now in the hearts of the men and women of this world, and that God might hasten the day that is still to come when His kingdom arrives in its fullness and Christ reigns over all in everlasting peace.
While visiting people residing in care facilities they often tell me how useless they are because they can not even care for themselves. They can’t see or hear, and all they do is sit idly in a chair while awake. My solution to their predicament is to encourage them to pray; become a Prayer Warrior. I share with them the stories of those in similar circumstances who took advantage of this final stage of quiet rest to pray.
Now that they are not too busy to pray…PRAY! Pray that their Father in heaven would bring to life the spiritually dead, give sight to the spiritually blind, restore the hearing of the spiritually deaf, and plead with God to open the mouths of the dumb, (and dumber) Christians to declare the Gospel.
What I am about to write is highly subjective, so feel free to question my conclusion. I have witnessed the decline of the work of the Kingdom in the vicinity of such prayer warriors after they have died. I speculate this is the result of the absence of this person given to faithfully praying for the work of the Kingdom around them and no one to replace them.
“So those that can’t do: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10)