I learned in Sunday School that sometimes the Holy Spirit will lead people to pray urgently for someone in trouble. They said we don't always know who it is or what the danger is but to not ignore the request. I have heard my mother and grandma pray for someone and found out later that God heard the prayer and answered right away.
The teacher said the Holy Spirit doesn't work just with grown ups but also with children. It can come during the day or the middle of the night. You might wake up for no reason and that might be the Holy Spirit asking you to pray. You can just say you don't know what is wrong but someone is in trouble or hurting and please be with them.
It has happened with me several times. One was when one of our cats scratched my grandma and she couldn't get the bleeding stopped. She asked for me to pray. I did and not only did the bleeding stop, we couldn't find where she had been scratched.
Another time my grandma called and said she was suppose to fly out on vacation the next day (she was a nurse that helped a lot of people). She had hurt her back that day and could hardly move. She didn't know what she was going to do. I told her I'd pray for her. I said, "God, grandma helps a lot of people but now she needs help. Her back is hurting, make it quit." Later my mom and grandma said they were surprised at how I talked to God, but I told them I wasn't being disrespectful; I knew He would do it just as it says in the Bible. In the middle of the night grandma realized she needed to turn over in bed and it was going to hurt very bad. But when she moved the pain was gone and she was fine.
The third time I received a message from the Holy Spirit, my dad was working on the oil pipeline in Alaska. He lived in a camp and came home to visit once in a while. On one visit, it was during the winter, he and a friend left to go back to camp. All of a sudden I knew we needed to pray for them and to do it right away. I told my mom and I prayed that God would take care of them and keep them safe. When he got back to camp he called and mom asked him if he had any problems on the way. He was quiet for a second and then said the car had hit some black ice on the road, that is ice that takes on the color of the road instead of white. The car started skidding toward the side of the road toward the water. All of a sudden they came to a pull out where there was no snow and they got the car stopped. On his next trip home we went to see where the pull out was and there was no pull out anywhere along that stretch of road. God answers prayers, even those of children. The prayers don't have to be special like some grownups have but just what's in your heart.
The desire of my heart was to live in a place like Laura Engells Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) lived. God answered that prayer and for two years we lived in a one-room cabin with a sleeping loft. We didn't have running water or electricity and cooked on a two-burner camp stove or our wood stove. We had an outhouse and it got cold going out there when it was 20 degrees below zero. We had four dogs, two cats and a pony. I got to go to a one-room school, grades kindergarten through eighth grade. We all played together and helped one another. We got to go out and cut down our own Christmas tree for the school. We had one teacher and she was great. It is something I'll always cherish.
Elaine Frodsham
Elaine is our daughter. She is 40 years old now.
Jeanie Frodsham
