May 2007

When Mama Prayed

“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my Mother’s womb.  I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”     Psalm 139:13-14

The most important and compelling role on the face of the earth is a praying Mom.  Who can deny the power of a praying Mom?  Astonishing and miraculous things happen when Mama prays.  Beware!  When Mama says, “I’m praying for you,” you might as well surrender.  For when Mama prays, she is able to pierce the darkness of your troubled life and touch the face of God for answers.  Her prayers nudge us in the right direction when we stray.  Stop running when Mama prays.  She is able to reach heaven’s throne and send the hounds of heaven after a wayward husband or child.

It is Mama’s prayers that put our fears to rest.  Husbands who don’t attend church or teenagers with restless days don’t stand a chance when Mama prays.  Randy Travis sings a song called, “When Mama Prayed.”  The chorus goes like this:

When Mama prayed, good things happen
When Mama prayed, lives were changed
Not much more than five foot tall
But mountains big and small
Crumbled all away when Mama prayed

In the Bible verse listed above, we acknowledge that it is the hand of God that took sinew, bones, and flesh and formed us when we were in our mother’s womb.  God fashioned our body and made us the way we look, each person with a separate DNA.  But, it is Mama’s loving hands of discipline, caressing hands of love, and most of all, her continuous folded hands of prayer that largely shapes us into the person we are today.

It is true that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.  It is also true that, “the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (James 5:16).  I submit that Mama’s prayers seem to avail much more.

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