When we call Your name . . .  When we lift up others in prayer . . . When we call on the Lord for answers and He gives us release . . . When we ask for signs and He reveals Himself at work in our lives.

• Prayer is the Great Conversation.
• Prayer is relational:  God and you; God and me.

Pray for mountains to be moved.  As we do, God teaches us how to trust in Him.  Through every season, we never walk alone.  The Lord answers by His grace, better than we ever imagined because He sees the end while we only see the now.  Thank You, Lord, for Your grace.  Thank You, Father, for the “memorial stones” You have helped me erect, memories that tell of Your mercy and grace, stones that were erected at Your leadership and memorial that stand within our lives still today.

We are to recall our spiritual markers, telling the ways the LORD spoke to us, answered our prayers, made a way possible when a way did not exist, and changed our lives.  We are to remember, and we are to share these memories with our children, who will share them with their children (our grandchildren), who will then recant these same stories to their children (our great-grandchildren), and on and on and on, for generations.  A spiritual legacy is rich with the work of the LORD within the lives of those who came before us, just as our legacy will carry on to re-tell the mighty ways the LORD worked in our lives.

This legacy remains most important—the work of the LORD in the lives of people.

Significant spiritual milestones in our lives may involve answered prayers or mountaintop experiences.  They may recall crisis situations when the LORD displayed His presence to us.

Consider your memorials, as I have remembered mine.

Three moments come flooding into my mind, all three involving the still, quiet prayerful moments when God met me where I was at that life’s season.

When God promised to me a child.

When God spoke through a specific passage of Scripture.

When God reminded me of the mighty way He answered my prayer twofold.

In all occasions, I can clearly recall where I was sitting, what I was doing, and the season of life I was walking.  These spiritual milestones, these markers, are mine forever, and they are meant to be voiced.

When we call on God’s name . . .  When we lift up others in prayer . . . When we call on the LORD for answers, ones only He can answer in His release . . . When we ask for boulders to be moved, and our Father reveals Himself at work in our lives, giving us a visible signpost.

• Prayer:  the Great Conversation, relational between God and you, between God and (individually) each of us.
• Prayer:  the great mover of mountains, teaching us how to trust only in Him.
• Prayer meetings:  the seasons when only two were present (the LORD and you).
• Testimonials of those prayerful times when the LORD stepped into the gap and swept away the fear, doubt, and answer our prayers as only HE can.

Let us never be silent but always prayerfully giving witness to others of the ways God has worked in our lives.

Let the generations that come after us, generations of individuals who have not yet even been born, to know the work of the LORD in our lives.

Let us recall our erected memorials, recalling the spiritual markers of our lives.

Forever is such a long time, and it’s quite amazing how quickly people forget that which came before them; therefore, the memorial stones that we erect are visible reminders that help us remember.  They stand there for the generations that will come long after we have gone home to heaven.  As believers, we are called to serve others as we labor for the LORD, and often we work, doing tasks that we will never live to see how they come to fruition.  Only the next generation or the next or . . . will live to see.  Because we have erected the stones, the spiritual reminders, our spiritual legacy of the mighty workings of the LORD will remain, maybe even leading our great, great, great, great . . . grandchildren to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

Thank You, LORD, for this.