Prayer Works!

5:00 a.m. and your adult son comes into the guest bedroom where you are staying to "announce" his wife is in full labor asking us to keep an eye on Keaton, their 22 month old sleeping son, and handing us the baby monitor. They are preparing for a home delivery with a doula and a midwife and her assistant already in their bedroom.
I grab my Bible and move to an adjacent room with a lamp and easy chair and settle in to pray. My mind and emotions are as hard to control as a run away stallion yet I pull on the reins and settle into the Psalms. Thankfully I've read them many times and underlined in my pocket Bible verses that have held special significance to me. So I begin in Psalms 18: "I love you, O Lord, my strength" and ask God to give Stacia the necessary strength to birth that baby! "The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer" asking God to deliver that baby healthy in His perfect timing! I went from Psalms to Psalms in like manner reading, praying, and directing His Words back to Him on behalf of Stacia and the baby and Jacob. I loved it when I got to Psalm 139 where the psalmist states: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made: your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Now as I gaze on little Beckham Daniel Stall I know that indeed he is "fearfully and wonderfully made" by God himself!
Oh the joy I experienced in those two hours of prayer can not be fully expressed in words. I shall never forget that precious time with the Lord nor the experience of "praying into this world" our little grandson. May God be forever praised!!