Lifting Up Prayers for Others

    I now have many opportunities to give my opinion of a product and the seller of that product.  When I look for something to purchase, I am interested in what other people think about it.  I was going to purchase a saxophone several years ago and the price was really good, but was it worth it?  The reviews were good from other people, some of them supposedly professional and so I purchased it.  It was a good investment.  You want someone who has a good reputation and can give their true opinion of what you are about to purchase.  Exodus 17:12 says, "But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."  
     We know the story mentioned in the above verses.  Moses would raise his arms and the battle would be in favor of Joshua but he couldn't stand there too long before they began to droop.  So, they set Moses on a rock and lifted his arms  and held them up.  Aaron and Hur were the ones who had been there to support Moses during the time of battle.  There are times in our lives when we need someone to "support" us.  This is especially true when we have a prayer request about something that is going on in our lives.  We really don't want someone who will only say that they will pray but that they will actually do it.  I am sometimes fearful that many people say they will pray but then forget to do so.  Moses could depend upon Aaron and Hur.  There are those in each of our lives in whom we can depend, especially in the area of prayer.  While it is true that the Apostle Paul must have had a very long prayer list as he mentioned so often that he was praying for the various churches  and individuals to whom he was writing.  Now it also come to pass that we need to be that someone who will lift up our hands to heaven in regard to the needs of someone else.  Do you have a "prayer list?"  Can people depend on you to pray for them when they request a prayer?  We need to fashion our lives like Aaron and Hur and be able to remember to pray for those who have needs in our family, our friends and our associates.  Praise God that He hears and answers prayer.