One of the most delightful discoveries of my life has been what I call “portable prayers.” Of course, prayer is always portable since we carry our prayer closet with us wherever we go, but it is not always easy to intercede in a public, people-filled spot.
I have found that with a pen and paper I can construct a dandy prayer closet right where I am. Airport or doctor’s office, boisterous situations or quiet ones, I can pray with whatever intensity is necessary simply by pulling out my notebook and writing to God.
An excellent example of how powerful this can be happened during a prayer “campaign” for my friend Dorothy. She was in the throes of producing her doctoral dissertation.
The unusual swirl of spiritual warfare surrounding her during these long months of meetings and revisions led us, her prayer support team, to commission someone to accompany her to the university to intercede “on the spot.”
I had the most flexible schedule; so, pen and paper in hand, I marched in just like all the other students...only my textbook was my Bible and my notebook was a prayer closet. I set up shop wherever I could find a place to sit. I prayed in empty classrooms, in the library, in the lecture hall, even in the snack room and hallway.
What wonderful times of prayer! For an hour, two hours, or more, I parried with the enemy, distracting his attention from my friend. The Lord Jesus arose in exaltation over His foes; the anointing of the Holy Spirit was poured out on my friend...all on lined tablet pages covered with words.
How much joy has come from that experience! Dorothy finished her dissertation and she and I entered into a deep and loving relationship: a gift from the Father. She has the written record in her possession of the prayers that were offered for her. And He has returned to me my bread cast upon the waters.
During a brief missionary journey I made, Dorothy and the rest of our prayer support team prayed daily for me. Dorothy was there at the airport when I returned home, exhausted, in the middle of the night. She had in her hand the evidence of prayer -- portable prayers, a treasure from the Father's heart that she could pass on to me to read and reread. “I can do it too,” she grinned. Indeed she can...and so can you!
Republished from The Breakthrough Intercessor vol. 11, no. 3, May/June 1991.
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