“Can you …? Can I …? I mean, how would I pray?” –These are the words from a near Christian, an international friend, you can call him Ray, who has a health problem that he really wants to overcome. He has been with us for three years; he attended a retreat, and church once. I (Fred) found out that God was still calling him!

I shared with him the Lord’s Prayer, that Jesus’ teaching assistants also wanted to know how to pray. He said he had little faith, I told how a man took his sick son to Jesus, and he had little faith too, but he asked Jesus to help him. We had just read of the three men in the fiery furnace in Daniel. He said he didn’t have their type of faith (of following God no matter what), but that if God would only get him out of this problem, then he would follow Him forever.

“Faith comes from hearing”

I shared, and that best comes from reading the Bible, just as he had studied the Daniel story with us. I did pray for him, and I encouraged him to keep reading in order to have more faith, and to keep praying the Lord’s Prayer in principle, for example, that God’s kingdom would be here on earth just as it is in Heaven.

Keep praying for Ray, that God’s kingdom would live in him!