The true power of prayer is always behind the scenes. It is the power that generates the movement of God and we often don’t have any idea of the “true events” of a revival or miracle until later. What we often find out later is God was moving someone to prayer.

Mark Batterson writes in Draw the Circle:

Prayer is the pen that writes history. Don’t worry about headlines; focus on the footnotes. And if you focus on the footnotes, God will write the headlines.

Heaven is full of great surprises. It will be “fun” to recognize the great heroes we all had in the faith. But what will shock us is the attention given to people we just don’t know. People who never made the headlines, never pastored a church (let alone a megachurch), never wrote a great theological treatise… but people who knew how to intercede. People who knew how to get into the presence of God for others.