Debbie Jansen - Author / Speaker / Mentor / Minutes of Faith / Praying for America

It's amazing when we find out that God had answered our prayers long before the problem even existed.

1 John 3:21-22 “Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.” 

Matthew 6:8 “for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Dreams can give us insight into daily issues.  A God-sent dream can change our lives.

Matthew 2:13 “When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

Scientists, Psychologist and theologians insist that man has an inner desire to find God.

Proverbs 20:27 “The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord that sheds light on one’s inmost being.”

What do you do when all is lost?  How can you go on when you know that the future is bleak?

Matthew 6: 25- 27 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”

God's victory may come in a form you don't expect.  Never give up.  Wait patiently on him.  

John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

A new missionary and his small congregation see the hand of God in Russia when they pray with childlike faith.

Matthew 18:2-4 “He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them.  And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

Don't be discouraged.  Pray believing that God will answer with a miraculous solution!

1 John 5:5 “Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”  

1 John 5:14 “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” 

Isaiah 45:15 “Truly, O God of Israel, Savior, you work in strange, mysterious ways.” 

God has a plan for all our needs.  God has a plan for America and the world.  

Psalm 32:8  “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. 

Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Praying Americans cause God to send angels to a dying man in South India.

Ephesians 6: 10-13 “ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

Two students stranded on a dark road in the middle of nowhere are visited by angels.

Hebrews 13: 1-2 “Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”