On today's episode of Footsteps, Michael Daniels takes us back to 2021, to his life-threatening battle with COVID, and tells us a very personal story of intercessory prayer.  As you listen to Michael's story, keep this verse and this quote in mind:

"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.  The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." (James 5:16, NIV)

"O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth."--Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth (1)

So, how is it that our prayers can be "powerful and effective?"  It's not because of our righteousness.  It's because we are "link(ing) arms" with a sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, perfect, loving, and Holy God.  It's all about Him!

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1. Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest (Moody Publishers, 2000), p. 246, as quoted online at Grace Quotes, accessed December 15, 2025, https://gracequotes.org/topic/prayer-effectiveness/.