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When our children were young, my husband was laid off from work because computers took over his job. It was certainly a learning experience for us. His job had been so steady, and we were facing a new reality. However, I am thankful my husband was grounded in the Word of God, and immediately set down some guidelines for our family to follow.

The primary guideline was that we would pay our tithes first. Second, the bills would be paid. Third, we would eat. And there was definitely one more thing I learned—to “pray without ceasing.”

My husband’s job, of course, became an object of our prayers. Constantly, day by day, I prayed that God would somehow undertake regarding his employment. God answered and provided a job that allowed us to make ends meet, although it was about half the pay of his previous one.

In his new job, my husband started having pain from using his arm a certain way eight hours a day. I just knew that God had something better for him to do. One day, after several months of praying about this, the Lord prompted me to drop what I was doing and go to prayer. This happened three times that day. So three times I went to my room and shut the door and prayed. Back then I was taking care of children, and each time God prompted me to pray, He made it at a time when the children were busy or sleeping. I was not sure what I was to pray, but assumed it was about the job. Each time I told the Lord that He knew why He was asking me to pray like this, and that I knew He had the answer.

That night before going to bed, my husband and I knelt and thanked God for providing our needs, and asked Him please to help my husband find a job where he would not experience the pain he was having. God did not disappoint us. At midnight that night, the phone rang. As my husband answered the phone, my heart was pounding for fear that there was a family emergency, but it was my husband’s boss from the job he had lost. With the computers replacing workers, this boss was the only person needed to run the company. But that night he informed us that he was starting his own company, and wanted to know if my husband wanted his job back at a higher pay than before! There was no hesitation on my husband’s part. He gave two weeks’ notice at the place he had been working and then went back to his original job.

There is such power in praying without ceasing! My husband and I would not trade the lesson we learned from this experience for anything. Praying without ceasing is just a part of our lives now, and what blessings we see as we follow this short verse in God’s Word!