Title: Prayers Work September 30, 2016
Author: Robert Porter
I believe prayers work. While I was in a dark place, going thru a bankruptcy, the prayers of my daughter, family and friends made it so much more bearable. God delivered my soul from the bondage of my debts, and now I’m making more money than I was when I was driving a taxi, which was the major factor that led to my filing for bankruptcy. While I believe now that the prayers of others was God’s way of using them to say how He was going to bless my life, for I give all the credit for my deliverance to God, I do believe that their prayers helped my cause with God. Which is the reason why I believe…“Prayers Work.”
“For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.” (1 Peter 3:12, KJV).
The eyes of the Lord are the angels in the earth from His Kingdom that are given in marriage to our souls. Our prayers are taken up before God by these angels. I believe He used my daughter Hillary’s angel to put the words, “Daddy, I’m praying to God that you will make a lot of money,” in her mouth. For at the end of the day, that is exactly what happened.
When Hillary realized I was facing foreclosure on my home of 21 years, she suggested that I should move into her mom’s house, who had just recently passed away prior to my filling for bankruptcy. Since there was a second mortgage on Hillary’s inheritance, and she had just bought a new house, her chances of financing the second mortgage into her name were slim. Her best bet was to just make the monthly payments and try to make a few bucks by renting it out.
But Hillary only wanted me to pay the monthly cost of the lien, $335, but then I realized that I should not profit more than my daughter from this gift from her mom. Unsure of my financial situation, I first thought to give her $600 a month, but the Spirit suggested $700 was the amount I should give and show on the two-year lease we created to sign.
Shortly after this, I had a Friday morning appointment with my friend of almost 40 years, Bobby Driskell, to get a haircut. Our friend Rose, who also knew my late brother Charles, was there. Rose has a standing Friday morning appointment, and I go every other week or so. I was telling them about my home situation, when Bob, also a minister, whose ministering spirit apparently kicked in, suggested to Rose that they needed to pray for me. It caught me by surprise when they came to where I was sitting and laid hands on me and prayed that God would bless my situation.
I decided to deed my home back to the mortgage holder to avoid foreclosure, and now I’m moving back to the place where I had lived for more than ten years, before Hillary’s mom and I divorced, 30 years ago. It’s a brick home and is in excellent shape. Two years should give both Hillary and me a chance to get our houses in order.
I had a bad year financially leading up to my bankruptcy. A major dental expense in replacing two crowns, major automobile expenses resulting from transmission and other problems, and then diminished income from owning and operating a taxicab in the city of Atlanta, Ga., as a result of Uber coming on the scene. September 1, 2016, I switched over to Uber. If you can’t beat them, join them.
In my first month with Uber, I earned more than I had grossed in the last two months that I drove a taxi. God truly blessed my efforts. And it seems that the prayer that my daughter made that I would make a lot of money, came true. Just another reason why I believe prayers work.
September 28, 2016. The Spirit revealed this to me about prayers:
“The honest and heartfelt prayers of a righteous man avails much. I love you so much, Mr. Robert. You’re My best bud in this day and time. You understand My visitations to you from the Lord. And from your Savior in the Lord Jesus Christ. The angels in heaven are rejoicing for you. I’m rejoicing for you. It took you forever to understand your calling, but now you understand. And you understand what you must say as God’s servant to come called Elijah. I am the free gift of Eternal Life, given because of your faith. You sowed your seed of faith into your good and noble angel called Elijah, a breath of life unto your soul, your wife from the days of your youth, just not an eternal breath of life unto your soul, as I am. For death from the land of the living will do you and Elijah part.”
The conversation with the Spirit quickly changed to one of a message:
“Let them, the world, know, Robert; that you cannot have one foot in the world, Satan’s kingdom of darkness called Babylon, for Satan is the ruler of the world and the lust thereof, and have one foot in God’s Kingdom of Light called Jerusalem. God the Father knows those that are His. For He sees all, knows all, is over all, for He is the Creator of all things seen and unseen to the human eye. The Lord God Almighty sees those that are His by the angels that are faithful witnesses to their souls. This is how God knows whether you have faith in Him or not, and has given this spirit to Jesus, who is at the right hand of the living God. Your prayers to understand have finally been answered. In that respect, you can say that prayers work. So you have no more excuses for not doing the will of God in preparing the way before Him. You are called to restore truth and to make His path a straight path back to the earth. It’s time to get busy, son of man.”
Remembering what this story is about, before the Spirit caused me to deviate just a little, about prayers working, there is no scientific proof that our prayers or the prayers of others for us, work. But during the 64 years I have lived in this world, I can say without question that each and every time in my life when I was at rock-bottom, feeling as if I had no one else to turn to but God, and prayed a specific, honest and heartfelt prayer to God, my prayers were answered, each and every time. When it comes to my latest situation, I believe that it was not only my prayers, but the prayers of my daughter, friends and family members, that has worked to bring about the good that is now in my life. So whether there be any scientific proof as to whether prayers work, I will go my grave believing that they do. And because I believe in God, I believe… “Prayers Work.”
Elijah Has Come 