WHEN PRAYER BECOMES A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

When Prayer Becomes a Matter of Life and Death
By Eddie Smith

One morning my wife, Alice, went shopping for building supplies for a
project I
was working on. Being an intercessor and not a construction worker, she
was
largely unfamiliar with these items and spent a considerable amount of
time in
the hardware store looking for them.

Alice was finally standing in the checkout line when, suddenly, she had
a brief
vision. In her mind's eye--a closed vision--she saw a man standing in
my
office point a gun at me.

Immediately she grabbed her purse, abandoned her cart with the items
she had
worked so hard to find, and ran to the car. Alice began to intercede,
even as
she drove home. Once home, she rushed inside to her prayer closet,
where
she began crying out to the Lord.

She has since been asked, "Alice, why didn't you call the office and
ask if
Eddie was alright?"

"It was time to pray, not take a survey," she replies.

Alice prayed for 45 minutes until the burden and the sense of urgency
subsided.
Only then did she call the office and ask, "Eddie, are you okay?"

"Yeah, fine." I answered. "Why do you ask?"

She told me about her vision and how she had entered into prayer.

"Oh that," I explained. "He just got saved."

That morning I had had a counseling session with a medical doctor who
was in
ill health, separated from his wife, addicted to narcotics and
suicidal. After I led
him to Christ--and through some significant deliverance--he explained
how he
had loaded a pistol that morning and placed it on his kitchen counter,
intending
to bring it to my office and first kill me, then himself. For some
"unexplained
reason," he absentmindedly left the pistol on the kitchen counter.

Yes, begin married to an intercessor definitely has its advantages!