One Mountain …
Theme of the Week: Raise Your Prayer Sights
Luis Palau
Thursday, November 17, 2005
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Key Bible Verse: If you had faith … you could say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it would move. Nothing would be impossible (Matthew 17:20). Bonus Reading: John 17:20-21
Bob took his first trip to Uganda to visit the hospital just as dictator Idi Amin was being pushed out. Convinced that helping the hospital was futile without working on reconciliation in the ravaged country, Bob met the parliamentary leaders friendly to the new president, Milton Obote, and those who opposed him. He found each side willing to meet with him but not with each other.
"Lord, how can we get these guys to sit together and heal their land?" he prayed.
The answer came quickly. Waiting for his plane during a layover at the Nairobi airport, Bob sat next to an American missionary. She was the daughter of Andrew Young, then mayor of Atlanta. She suggested that Bob call her father and ask him to visit Uganda. Bob called. Andrew Young agreed.
They started a process of reconciliation that included opposition rebels, one of whom, Yoweri Museveni, became president in due course. A Museveni adviser who believed in Jesus Christ met with Bob; they talked about forgiveness, reconciliation, and love for one's enemies. President Museveni was persuaded to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, where he acknowledged his own faith. [continued 11/18]
—Luis Palau in It's a God Thing
My Response: A time I sensed God using me in answer to prayer was …
Thought to Apply: History belongs to the intercessors who believe the future into being.—WALTER WINK
Adapted from It's a God Thing (Doubleday, 2001) by permission.
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