World Vision
I did a chapel devotional for the DC office of World Vision today. We actually hosted it at Ebenezers which was cool.
One of the things I talked about was how our prayers are eternal. I like to think of it in bioacoustic terms. According to the science of bioacoustics, every word you've ever said is somewhere in the universe. And if we had the technology to pull it off, we could actually recapture all of those sound waves. In the same sense, I think every prayer wave is eternal. There is no expiration date. I think every good thing that happens in our lives can be traced back to a prayer that was prayed by someone somewhere. Many of them can be traced back 2,000 years to the prayers of Christ.
World Vision is doing an incredible work around the world. There are thousands of employees in hundreds of countries. Their compassion efforts are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. But I think it all traces back to prayer. I came across a picture on their website of Dr. Bob Pierce, the founder of World Vision. He is in the posture of prayer. I actually put it up on the screen during my devotional. Bob Pierce started World Vision in 1953 to care for Korean orphans. But when you pray like it depends on God your vision can become much more than you ever imagined.
I wonder what was going through his mind when this picture was taken? Did he have any idea that World Vision would become what it is? What percentage of his prayers were answered before he died in 1978? And what percentage of his prayers were answered after he died?
One of the things I talked about was how our prayers are eternal. I like to think of it in bioacoustic terms. According to the science of bioacoustics, every word you've ever said is somewhere in the universe. And if we had the technology to pull it off, we could actually recapture all of those sound waves. In the same sense, I think every prayer wave is eternal. There is no expiration date. I think every good thing that happens in our lives can be traced back to a prayer that was prayed by someone somewhere. Many of them can be traced back 2,000 years to the prayers of Christ.
World Vision is doing an incredible work around the world. There are thousands of employees in hundreds of countries. Their compassion efforts are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. But I think it all traces back to prayer. I came across a picture on their website of Dr. Bob Pierce, the founder of World Vision. He is in the posture of prayer. I actually put it up on the screen during my devotional. Bob Pierce started World Vision in 1953 to care for Korean orphans. But when you pray like it depends on God your vision can become much more than you ever imagined.
I wonder what was going through his mind when this picture was taken? Did he have any idea that World Vision would become what it is? What percentage of his prayers were answered before he died in 1978? And what percentage of his prayers were answered after he died?
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