Who’s Praying for You?
You have a ministry. It is your service to Yahweh, according to the meaning of “ministry.” “Mas” means “more” in Latin and Spanish. “Mini” means “less.” The relationship between a MINIster and a MASter is that one is little and one is big. One is less, and one is greater. The little one is the servant of the big one. So, everyone who serves is a minister in some way. Your service to God is your ministry.
Your ministry happens to be in a war zone. Some of the war manifests in the culture-clash between the world systems and the Kingdom of Heaven. Some is in the attempts to control your life and resources by your family or others. Some of it appears in the temptations you face to settle for things of the earth instead of the things that have eternal value – like Esau selling his birthrights for a bowl of soup.
You need someone praying for you. This intercession may create a request in heaven for supplies. Maybe a request for protection. It may produce revelation – instructions or answers or confirmations that help lead you on the path of completing your work.
If you don’t have someone committed to pray for you and your work, pray that the Lord would raise up someone. I am convinced that it could be in your life as valuable as the difference between the end of James’ ministry and the continuation of Peters, as Luke recorded that difference in Acts 12:4.
About that time King Herod cruelly attacked some who belonged to the church, and he killed James, John’s brother, with the sword. When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the days of Unleavened Bread. After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was being made earnestly to God for him by the church.
On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, “Quick, get up!” Then the chains fell off his wrists. “Get dressed,” the angel told him, “and put on your sandals.” And he did so. “Wrap your cloak around you,” he told him, “and follow me.” So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what took place through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. After they passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and immediately the angel left him.
(Acts 12:1-10 Holman Christian Standard Bible® ©)