Prayer is undoubtedly productive! Just as the intimacy of lovers may result in the conception, gestation and eventual birth of new life, so prayer begins in intimacy and often produces miraculous fruit. As 24-7 prayer rooms multiplied and thousands of people began praying like never before, we watched in wonder as prayer gave birth to mission and to wonderful justice initiatives, to vibrant creativity, to salvations, to writing and music, to the renewing of tired vision and, perhaps inevitably, to many new communities with a
