Prayer In Flight
Coming from an abused home myself, I recognized this cry. I knew something seriously wrong
was happening to a very young child. Each day I would pray and hope that whatever was
going on it would stop and the child would be ok. It became such an issue that I would cry
too. I found a window that was in the direction of the cry. One sunset, after the chilling cry, I
could see the child in fetal position in a pit. In Africa, there are times a serious situation is
untouchable. This was one of those times…
Story behind my art Prayer in Flight
Sometimes, there are situations that we simply cannot fix.
A few years ago, as I would sit in my office to work on administrative duties on the field of Nigeria, West Africa, several months had gone by where I heard a very unsettling child cry from behind my home around the same time. It was an unsafe and inaccessible situation during the 2020 pandemic.
Coming from an abused home myself, I recognized this cry. I knew something seriously wrong was happening to a very young child. Each day I would pray and hope that whatever was going on it would stop and the child would be ok. It became such an issue that I would cry too. I found a window that was in the direction of the cry. One sunset, after the chilling cry, I could see the child in fetal position in a pit. In Africa, there are times a serious situation is untouchable. This was one of those times.
My imagination ran wild, but I started to pray very specific words for this small child. Words I felt would make the abuse stop. I was desperate.
The next day, sounds of giggles and laughter flooded my office instead of the chilling desperate cry. The day after I heard the same thing. It continued day after day! The abuse stopped!
With tears of joy I learned a very beautiful lesson about my God! My words were so specific in my prayer to save a little girl - I knew that in those words God answered.
You see, our words matter! How and what we pray matters. I’ve learned that if I keep close to Jesus with His word in my heart and keep my communication with Him throughout my day with words that matter, I have seen remarkable prayers answered - God working things that I cannot touch or fix. He does it with splendor!
Living in a foreign land where many are less privileged than we are in the USA, has taught me a different walk with Jesus. The more I trust Him, the more He draws close. The more focused I become on Him the more I see Him “fix” issues and get us through.
Simply this, your words matter. Pray specifically what you desire from the Lord. He answers with flying colors.
In the book of John in 5:17 it says, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
After this incident, I shared this with a friend. We were crying together and rejoicing over the fact that what I could not do the Lord could. It was then I saw a vision of a bird in flight. As an artist I set out to create it. It represents how our prayers make it to the throne of God in anticipation of the answer!