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To: Just mythoughts
Doesn't the individual have to do the asking?

James 5:16 ~ ...pray one for another...

"I grieved my Lord from day to day, I scorned His love so full and free, And though I wandered far away, My mother's pray'rs have followed me.

O'er desert wild, o'er mountain high, A wanderer I chose to be, A wretched soul condemned to die, Still mother's pray'rs have followed me.

He turned my darkness into light, This blessed Christ of Calvary, I'll praise His name both day and night, That mother's pray'rs have followed me.

I'm coming home, I'm coming home, To live my wasted life anew, For mother's pray'rs have followed me, Have followed me the whole world thru."

Mother's Prayers Have Followed Me ~ Lizzie DeArmond/B.D.Ackley

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Salvation of souls is a constant prayer, no matter the person. How recompense is given is up to God, no matter personal expression. My one, consistent prayer for the Clintons has been ...

That the Lord would render the Clintons, and ALL their minions, totally powerless and nameless and faceless and useless and voiceless and homeless and penniless, and that He would strip them bare before the world, such is their evil, leaving only their immortal souls, and it is for these souls I pray ...

777 posted on 09/03/2004 10:59:45 AM PDT by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His Word ...)
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To: Pegita
"I grieved my Lord from day to day, I scorned His love so full and free, And though I wandered far away, My mother's pray'rs have followed me.

O'er desert wild, o'er mountain high, A wanderer I chose to be, A wretched soul condemned to die, Still mother's pray'rs have followed me.

He turned my darkness into light, This blessed Christ of Calvary, I'll praise His name both day and night, That mother's pray'rs have followed me.

I'm coming home, I'm coming home, To live my wasted life anew, For mother's pray'rs have followed me, Have followed me the whole world thru."

Mother's Prayers Have Followed Me ~ Lizzie
DeArmond/B.D.Ackley

Reminds me of St. Monica's constant prayers for her son, St. Augustine, and how his life was radically changed!
1,152 posted on 09/03/2004 5:47:49 PM PDT by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
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