Covered by Prayer…

Covered by Prayer…3-26-25

We have an incredible team of women at our church who participate in Wrap Around Tuesday. These ladies have a mission of making prayer blankets for church members undergoing health and emotional crises. They are behind ,as you can imagine, due to numerous surgeries, deaths, and severe illnesses of church members. They can’t keep up with the need.

In the image, you see a prayer blanket. My blanket. It stays on my couch, goes with me on overnight trips, a source of comfort, and a constant reminder of just one of many times in my life God carried me.

Several years ago I had a heart attack. The heart attack actually occurred a couple of days after I made a trip in a helicopter for heart hospitalization. It was my wake-up call, only I didn’t answer and wake up. My patterns of stress, over-work, worry, fear, anxiety, lack of correct nutritional and physical support, and just plain “trying to do things on my own” caught up to me. A precursor , then a heart attack, then a mini-stroke from which my cognitive skills are still giving me cause for concern.

Each blanket is prayed over. The recipient of each blanket can rest assured that every single time they wrap themselves in their blanket, they are covered by prayer.

Isaiah 51:16 refers to being covered with God’s hand. “I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ We are His people. He covers us just as this blanket covers me. The prayers of others is very biblical. I believe that God hears the prayers of the faithful. I also believe He comforts us with the knowledge of those praying for us.

“James 5:14-15: "Is anyone among you sick? Let them call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

My Women friends will never know the comfort this blanket has brought. Not because it is a tangible object, but because of the knowledge of those Women caring enough for me to pray for my mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. By His still waters and under His blanket, I am safe.