Prayers Never Die
PRAYERS NEVE DIE...three unrelated stories on the power of persistent prayer. STORY 1 He hated the way he struggled to provide for his family. The way things had always not been easy and how he worked more than two jobs to put food on the table. He sat on a torn leather chair and under the squeaking ceiling fan that needed repairs, but wasn't, because there was no money. The sweat that dropped from his forehead, they came more as a result of the thinking he had been doing lately than from the heat in his living room... "God, despite all the prayers of these years," he muttered under his breath. "Despite the months of prayers and fasting, why does it still feel like I'm in square one? When will my big break come?" He slept off, his mind a jumbled mass of confusion and frustration, trying to place a finger on what he was doing wrong... Until a credit alert woke him up. And then another. And a message from a contractor he had heard nothing from in months. And