After the great fire of 1666 that leveled London, the world’s most famous architect, Christopher Wren, was commissioned to rebuild St Paul’s Cathedral.

One morning he passed among the workmen, most of whom did not know him, and of three different men engaged in the same kind of work he asked the same question: “What are you doing?” From the first he received the answer: “I am cutting this stone." From the second the answer was: “I am earning three shillings and six pence a day.” But the third man straightened up, squared his shoulders, and holding his mallet in one hand and chisel in the other, proudly replied: “I am helping Sir Christopher Wren to build this great cathedral to The Almighty.”

Given the lesson here, how ought we to look at "clicking buttons" on this site to offer prayers for others in need? I can tell you with certainty that scoffers will look with disdain on what this site is trying to do the same way the scoffers in Nehemiah did as they sneered, "What do these feeble Jews?" looking at the poor little walls, painfully piled up, over which a fox could jump. The Jews did very little...but they were building the city of God, which has outlasted all the mockers.

Men might look with contempt on a humble beginning, but other eyes can look at such beginnings with other emotions. If we try to get so near God as to see things with His eyes, we shall be saved from many a false estimate of what is great and what is small, and may have our own poor little doings invested with strange dignity, because He deigns to behold and bless them.

So, are we simply "clicking buttons" here, or are we participating in and helping build up a global prayer network that puts an inestimable amount of group force behind the earnest individual supplications made by brothers and sisters in Christ who call upon your prayerful help to ask our heavenly Father to hear them?