Prayer and the Gospel

This story is one whose answer has not yet been totally fulfilled. Yet, I believe, as marketplace ministers, it is a place in which we are called to live: the place of persistent prayer. 

I was working with a client who definitely was not a believer.  He was having enormous financial problems in the business. I asked him if he believed in the power of prayer. He answered, “No!”  I said that I did and would be praying for God to bring an answer. 

He was not impressed, but touched that I would offer.  The Lord brought an answer.  My client could not really see that the answer was connected to prayer.  Through our business dealings, our relationship has developed into a trusted friendship. I continue to pray for his and his family’s salvation.  He now knows I pray for him. I believe these prayers are the rains that soften the heart and that the time will come that he will hear and receive the gospel.