{"id":25276,"date":"2026-03-11T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/pray-now\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:15:25","slug":"pray-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/prayer\/true-stories-of-answered-prayer\/pray-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pray Now!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning the messages came in: \u201cUrgent prayers,\u201d \u201cPray now!,\u201d \u201cNeed your prayers.\u201d Email messages and posts on Facebook alerted me that Logan Eliasen, the 20-year-old son of one of our <em>Guideposts<\/em> writers, <a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/hope-and-faith\/hope-mother-wishes-daughter-after-having-four-sons\">Shawnelle Eliasen<\/a>, was stuck in an Iowa cave. By then he\u2019d been trapped for a dozen hours.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ugh,<\/em> I thought, <em>how awful.<\/em> Not just because I\u2019m claustrophobic and can\u2019t bear being in the window seat of an airplane, let alone countenance the thought of being motionless in a dark cave; I couldn\u2019t imagine a scarier situation for a parent. To know your kid is in trouble, to have first responders working to keep him alive with food and water, and yet knowing you can\u2019t do much more <em>but <\/em>pray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrayers for Logan,\u201d I typed. \u201cKeep me posted.\u201d Typing a prayer feels as good as saying one. Something tactile about it, as though God is getting my message from my words as well as my fingers hitting the keys.<\/p>\n<p>All morning I kept checking Facebook and Google, searching for news. The rescue workers were chiseling at the rock to widen the passage. Meanwhile Logan was getting oxygen and an IV drip to keep from getting dehydrated. Does instant knowledge make for better prayers? Is Facebook really a help? Who knows? I\u2019m certain that urgent situations make for more focused praying. When you get that message \u201cPray now!,\u201d how can you not respond?<\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019ll be OK<\/em>, I started telling myself. I\u2019ve never met Logan but I know from what his folks say that he\u2019s got an active faith and I knew that he\u2019d be using it. My fears started fading. Faith had stepped up to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, as I checked, I thought about how no one ever expected Facebook or Google to be used for prayer, but here we were all praying online, friends of friends I\u2019d never met. That\u2019s what happens when a praying people get a chance to communicate. Prayer connects us to each other as much as it connects us to God and we do it how we can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember the 20-year-old kid trapped in a cave,\u201d I said at grace that night. We had friends over for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Just before bed, I logged on again. \u201cGood news!\u201d I said to my wife. After 20 hours, Logan was rescued and taken to the hospital. From all reports, he sounded like he was OK. (Today his mom emailed me to say, \u201cWe kept him quiet and still while he was in the hospital but now he\u2019s talking with a local news station. He wanted to give God the glory.\u201d) In an interview he gave after recovering, Logan said, \u201cI prayed through the whole thing. That\u2019s the only thing that really kept me going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUrgent prayers.\u201d \u201cPray now!\u201d Those are phrases that can give me a chill. But they\u2019re all about keeping in touch. They mean exactly what they say: \u201cYou have a job to do. You\u2019re a first responder too. 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