Kathleen Wetzel received confirmation of the effectiveness of prayer when her
son, Lieutenant Robert Wetzel, told her what happened to him in an Iraqi prison
after he had been treated for his injuries.
After several days without water, he thought he was near death and prayed, "God,
please give me some water." Within minutes a guard opened his cell and gave Bob
the last drops of water from his pail. Then, after getting more water, he filled
Bob's cup a second time.
Some days later, as he shivered on the icy concrete floor while the night time
desert temperature dropped to near zero, he prayed, "God, I'm so cold. I'm
feeling pretty helpless. Can You give me a sign?" Minutes later the cell door
opened and someone threw in a blanket.
Finally, one night the prison was nearly levelled in an air raid. The terrified
guards fled, leaving Bob and six other POWs locked in their cells. One more bomb
would have reduced the prison to rubble. It never came and not a single POW was
injured.
In comparing notes Mrs. Wetzel was able to estimate that all of these events
occurred after she stopped praying for herself and directed all her prayers
toward Bob.
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