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Excerpted from the "Guideposts" article by Arthur Gordon

I was impressed - and puzzled. Michael Guido and his wife Audrey had just taken my wife Pam and me on a tour of their headquarters in the little farming town of Metter, Georgia. Word processors, printing presses, recording rooms, tape libraries. . . I knew the value of the building and equipment had to be at least a million dollars.

"But," I said, "if you and Audrey had only a hundred dollars to begin with, and if you made a vow never to ask for money, and if you've never tried to sell anything, how on earth did all this happen?"

Michael Guido smiles a lot and he was smiling now. "Let me tell you a true story," he said. "One time years ago when Audrey and I were in California we were coming back from San Jose, where I had given a church talk, to Los Angeles. The motel in San Jose had cost more than we expected, so we had no money left. None at all. We had enough gas to get to Los Angeles, but nothing for food.

"I said to Audrey, 'You know, in the 23rd Psalm it says I shall not want. But here we are wanting. Why don't we ask the Lord for ten dollars. You close your eyes and pray, and I'll drive and pray, and we'll ask Him.'

"So Audrey closed her eyes and prayed. A big trailer-truck coming up from behind roared past with a blast of air that rocked our little car. 'What's that?' Audrey asked a bit nervously. 'Just a truck,' I told her, 'going too fast.'

A couple of miles down the road the truck stopped right in the middle of the highway. We had to stop too. The trucker, a big, burly fellow, got out and walked back toward us. He motioned us to open a window. Somewhat apprehensively, Audrey opened hers a crack. 'I don't know you people,' the trucker said, 'and you don't know me. We'll probably never meet again. But when I passed you just now, something told me that you needed money and that I was supposed to help. Here!' He pushed a crumpled ten dollar bill through the window and walked away."

I stared at Michael Guido. "Are you saying that all this-" I waved my arms inclusively- "came into being because you prayed for it?"

"That's right," said Michael. "Whenever we need anything-anything at all-we ask the Lord for it. Did you notice that bulletin board in the corridor, the one with the sign above it saying, 'Ask and ye shall receive?' Whenever we need a wheel-barrow or a tool-shed or a copier we try to find a picture of the item in a newspaper or a magazine. We cut it out and pin it on the board. Every time Audrey and I or one of the staff walks past that board we say a prayer asking that our need be met. It's great fun a week or a month later to take the item down because the petition has been granted."

Prayer power, I was thinking. We all hear about it and read about it and try to use it. And yet, when we encounter an example of it that defies all the laws of probability we're astounded. Astounded because it's working the way it's supposed to work.

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