Joseph closed the gate in the fence and walked slowly back towards the kitchen door. Apart from a thin ray of light shining through the kitchen window, the backyard was engulfed in darkness. When he opened the back door, he noticed a pair of eyes shining back at him in the dim light of the kitchen. The black dog lay almost unnoticed in the gloomy darkness outside.
“It’s fine, my dog”, Joseph said as he stroked his head. “Tomorrow you will feel much better”. He noticed a weak movement of what seemed like an effort to wag his tail.”
He returned Blackie form the vet an hour or two ago and put him on the old sofa on the back porch. “It is tick fever”, the vet said. “Nothing much I can do apart from an injection and some pills. The dog needs a blood transfusion but I do not have a suitable donor at this stage. I have to warn you, his chances of survival are slim”.
Joseph was still stroking the dog’s head when he decided to pray for him and he knelt down beside him. “Lord Jesus, I assume it would be fine to pray for Blackie. I mean, although he is an animal, I love him very much and he has no one but me to assist him, and I have You Lord!”
Words started flowing over his lips like water bursting from a broken dam. He prayed for Blackie first and then continued praying for his wife and children, the rest of his family. Suddenly he realised how he had neglected his prayer time.
Joseph continued praying for his country, his government, other countries, other people, whether he knew them or not. It seemed that as soon as he had finished praying for one subject, Jesus showed him something else to pray for.
He kept on praying until he felt the wet tongue of Blackie on his hands. He instantly knew the dog would get well soon.
Before Joseph went to sleep that night, he knelt once again at the side of his bed to thank Jesus for the breath of prayers and for miracles.
“Yes”, Jesus replied, “prayers are like the air that you breathe, Joseph. The more you use it, the better you are. Prayers are free and available in abundance, something that can never be exhausted. It may be used over and over again, followed by the grace of answered prayers rolling in, and at the same time showing the inexhaustible stock of unused prayers still available for anyone to take.”
“It is sad to notice the billions of people in need and at the same time the abundance of miracles and prayer time available to them…… and yet, only a few are taking it”.
“Countries are filled with desperate leaders, shaky businesses and billions of people who are all suffocating in need due to a lack of prayers. All of this is taking place while My church who has the abundance of My power and grace to change the world available to them, do nothing but sulk in silence.”
“Keep on breathing My grace of power in prayer and use it continually, it is indeed inexhaustible.”