Evelyn Christenson - What God Does When Women Pray

What God Does
When Women Pray

Evelyn Christenson

2000 Evelyn Christenson

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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations used in this book are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB), 1960, 1977 by the Lockman Foundation.

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Christenson, Evelyn.

What God does when women pray / Evelyn Christenson.
p. cm.

ISBN 0-8499-3761-2 (sc)
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1. PrayerChristianity. 2. Christian womenReligious life. I. Title.

BV210.5 .C48 2000
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Contents

THE ONLY REASON this book could be written is because of you who prayed.

My heart is overwhelmed at your love and faithfulness. Here are some of you.

My United Prayer Ministry Boardpraying daily, telephone prayer chains three times a week, and monthly board prayer meetings, consistently and fervently for twenty-seven years.

Gloria Davidson and Jan Mudgefounding U.P.M. officers in 1973.

Jeanne Scott and Marlene Lee U.P.M. presidents who made their homes and our board meetings holy places of prayer.

Eighty selected intercessors on monthly calendarpraying consistently since the early seventies.

My extended familyfaithfully praying long before and through this thirty-year journey.

My motherthe most powerful prayer in my life until she went to heaven and found all her prayers in golden bowls up there.

AD2000/Christian Women United Board and participantspraying with me in unity with awesome prayer for nine years.

Kathryn Grantseeking Gods wisdom and guidance and power with me for twenty yearsmy undying gratitude.

Judy Mbugua, Lorry Lutz, and international leaders of AD2000 Womenpraying faithfully for almost ten years.

The original 1968 prayer experimenters from Rockford, Illinois.

My occult prayer chainpraying victoriously for seven years.

Local seminar committees here and abroadpraying sacrificially for twenty-eight years.

International A.D. 2000 leaderspraying on every continent since 1992.

My twenty-four-hour prayer clockpraying without ceasing when I was overseas, for nineteen years.

Bethel faculty wives prayer grouppraying faithfully since 1971.

Twin Cities metropolitan prayer chain, including its prison chain and government chainpraying since the early seventies.

Nine thousand U.P.M. newsletter recipientspraying since 1973.

Calvary Church of St. Paul friends and staffpraying supportively since 1970.

Calvary Church care grouppraying monthly for the last nine years.

Signe Swan and Lorna Johnsonwith whom I started praying in 1964.

JoAnne Jankowski, my lawyer and prayer partnerpraying personally since the late seventies.

Sally Hanson, Sue Moore, Carri Fadden, and Diane Berggren, faithful administratorspraying while they did all the work I could not do.

The National Prayer Committeepraying for me and with me since 1974, with prisidents Vonette Bright to David Bryant.

Mission America and Lighthouse Committeespraying for nine years.

All the people in the organizations I list in chapter 1.

Plus all of you dear, faithful prayers I may have left out of this list or didnt even know were praying! Please insert your name on this list where it fits.

To you, thanks from the depths of my heart; and to God, my deepest gratitude for calling you all to be intercessors, burdening your hearts to pray, and then answering with what He wanted to happen all along! Thanks!

Finally my deep, deep gratitude for my dear Diane Berggren who has been my right hand helper in the producing of the bookin addition to personally accepting Gods burden to pray for Him to pour forth His power to and through it to you, dear readers.

WHEN I HAD put the manuscript for What Happens When Women Pray in the mail to editor Jim Adair in 1975, I panicked. Frantically calling him, I pleaded, Dont print that thing!

Jim calmly responded, Evelyn, what is the matter with you?

That book doesnt say anything that every Christian doesnt already know, I explodedat which Jim laughed out loud and hung up! I was furiousand very serious.

But now, twenty-five years after What Happens When Women Pray was first published, I realize how wrong I was. Although we had practiced all of the points of that original book and knew they worked, now there is a quarter of a century of proving that every one of its scriptural principles works far beyond anything we humans could have ever asked or even thought.

If you have been one of the millions who have read, studied, or taught What Happens When Women Pray, here is a book that will show you what God has done and taught us since then. If you have not read What Happens When Women Pray, you are in for an incredible journey into what God is doing today with the awesome prayer movement He started thirty years ago.

Like an Arctic iceberg, whose tip shows only one-ninth of its ice, the stories you read in this book will be only a little chip off the tip of the gargantuan iceberg of prayer. No human mind could ever comprehend or imagine the extent of Gods potential activity in answer to our prayers.

Looking back on thirty years of prayer ministry, here are some of the things we have discovered that God does when we pray:

What God Taught Us about Himself:

He taught us that it is through praying that He reveals His awesome self to us.

He showed us that He originally initiates all prayerand that it amazingly comes back full circle to Him with His answering according to His omniscient will.

God unraveled for us the mystery of the difference between B.C. (before Christ) and A.D. (after Christ) praying.

He reinforced to us that the privilege of our boldly coming directly to heavens throne room is because of Jesus shed blood.

He showed us that He sends answers to prayer far above anything we could ask or even think about.

God revealed to us that He worked behind the scenes long before He involved us in prayer.

He showed us over and over what He had intended to do when He burdened us to prayand we didnt have a clue why.

He showed us what of Jesus and the Holy Spirit we may be slighting in our praying for revival.

He taught us not to be discouraged by His not answering our prayers as fast as the culture whirling around us demands.

He showed us that little by little He is revealing His overall plan for Planet Earth to us through His answers.

What God Taught Us about