Pray for the Martins' daughters

Yesterday I got forcibly pulled out of my navel-gazing by the realization that there's bigger things than what's going on in my heart. G-d does care about what's happening to me personally, but He basically told me yesterday, "Look outside yourself and pray."

 

The 8:00 p.m. prayer meeting was really good. We spent the whole two hours praying for an IHOP family. Wes (who works with the Onething Internship) and Amanda Martin are expecting twins. Both of the twins have fluid on their brains, which could mean possible brain damage. Today at 2:00, Amanda is going to have a C-section. The twin girls will be six weeks early, but at five pounds it's not unheard of, I guess. My prayers and thoughts are with Amanda, Wes, and their unborn daughters.

 

The Martins have been the focus of most of our intercessory prayer meetings lately. I'm really proud of how the House has come together in asking for complete healing for the twins. True, we have been inspired by a dream that Wes had in which he met his daughters (they were 6-8 years old; one had a scar on the back of her head, indicating surgery had been necessary, but they were both normal, intelligent, and beautiful). But I think our commitment in prayer has been because G-d is teaching us how to pray.

 

More on the subject of prayer later, perhaps; I'll update when I hear how everything goes.