Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

I'll be reading again from the new devotional Give Him 15 and Appeal to Heaven, Volume 3.

I chose this post because it's a great follow-up to yesterday's Thanksgiving post.

This today is sort of my personal Thanksgiving post.

And the title is my prayer mentor, Ike. In November, 2023, I had the the great honor participating in intercessors for America's 50th anniversary

celebration. No ministry has done more to generate prayer for America than this great ministry.

As I pondered IFA's role in my life, one of the fondest memories was

learning to pray at Christ for the Nations Institute in 1977. Each student was required to participate

in an outreach or serving ministry on a weekly basis.

My initial choice was intercessory prayer, not because I was an intercessor or knew much about the subject.

Truth be known, I could barely pronounce it. But I wanted to learn

more about prayer, so I enrolled. Our prayer guide each week was a bulletin provided by a ministry

I had never heard of. Yep, intercessors for America.

One sheet of paper, front and back,

with timely issues and government leaders listed for prayer.

Thus began my journey of learning to pray.

I want to honor another link in the chain of my introduction to prayer

at CFNI, Christ for the Nations. I've always felt that one of the best ways to learn something new

was by watching and emulating someone better at it than me. Of the 1,200 or so students at CFNI,

I chose Emmanuel Ike,

a student from Africa,

complete with tribal markings,

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